One of the reasons for the Han Chinese to regain their political sovereignty of the Ming Dynasty by defeating Mongols' Yuan Dynasty was the fact that Chinese factions, that could have been divisive, had so much animosity and resentment against Mongols, had some consensus on expelling Mongols from the Chinese territory.  Unlike the message from the founder of Buddhism, Gautama Siddhartha, Chinese Buddhists such as the White Lotus Buddhists were often militant, patriotic, and rebellious against the Mongols. Matteo Ricci, a Western missionary in Ming period, noticed that Ming Dynasty needed to expand foreign trade with the Western European nations and earn profit in order to stay competitive in the economic and military field.

All True or False Questions:

1. One of the reasons for the Han Chinese to regain their political sovereignty of the Ming Dynasty by defeating Mongols' Yuan Dynasty was the fact that Chinese factions, that could have been divisive, had so much animosity and resentment against Mongols, had some consensus on expelling Mongols from the Chinese territory. 
2. Unlike the message from the founder of Buddhism, Gautama Siddhartha, Chinese Buddhists such as the White Lotus Buddhists were often militant, patriotic, and rebellious against the Mongols.
3. Matteo Ricci, a Western missionary in Ming period, noticed that Ming Dynasty needed to expand foreign trade with the Western European nations and earn profit in order to stay competitive in the economic and military field.
4. Ming Emperor's letter to Ashikaga Shogun demonstrates the emperor's desperate, urgent need to accumulate defense technology and revenue to defend the nation against the Western colonialism.
5. The reason for Chinese society to maintain social order fairly well for many years except some social turmoil was the fact that Confucian gentry class in local areas was able to indoctrinate the commoners with Confucian ethics, especially social hierarchy, and played the role of police.
6. It is safe to say that silk production in Yangtze Delta was successful, profitable; silk producers had more children in order to meet the labor demand for silk production; such economic and demographic condition contributed to the increase of Ming population.
7. If Zheng He's navigation toward the out world was well promoted by the Ming Dynasty, the Ming could have a great chance to accumulate more revenue from trading; but, Confucian oriented court officials/bureaucrats could not possibly support Zheng He who was an eunuch and Muslim.
8. The Spanish merchants' galleon trade with the Ming Dynasty could have provided a great opportunity for Chinese officials/policy makers to notice the unstoppable, dangerously growing/expanding European society.
9. It is safe to say that Chinese merchants in the Ming Dynasty were frantically moving their capital from trading to industrialization because industrial production created more profit and revenue than trading.
10. Adam Smith noticed that Ming Dynasty had "early sprouts of capitalism" such as guilds of traders/bankers and letters of credit; your instructor stated that it did not reach to the full scope/scale of capitalism because there was government intervention and free market system could not be developed. 
11. It is safe to say that "Water Margins" and "The Golden Lotus" follow the tradition of Confucian ethics of social hierarchy and learning from the wisdom of the wise men in the past.
12. One of the reason for the depletion of Ming's revenue is Ming's sending military troops to Korean to expel Toyotomi Hideyoshi back to Japan. 
13. Zhou Chen's art work is significant because his products demonstrate that Ming artists paid attention to the people on the lower social ladders and the poor people became subjects of art works.
14. It is safe to say that a large number of unpaid staff members to assist local officials/magistrates throughout the Ming Dynasty was a seed of corruption and bribery.