Political Science · Western Political Thought
In ancient China, one effect on government of the teachings of Confucius was the high status of:
AScholars ✓ Correct
BSoldiers
CFarmers
DMerchants
Correct answer: (A) Scholars — Confucian teaching gave scholars high status, so the answer is scholars.
Explanation
★Confucian teaching gave scholars high status, so the answer is scholars.
★Confucius prized learning, study and moral cultivation above wealth or force.
★Government posts were filled through examinations on the Confucian classics.
★This made the educated scholar-official the most respected figure in the state.
★Soldiers and merchants ranked lower in this scholarly value system.
★A learned and virtuous bureaucracy was thought essential to good government.
★So Confucianism raised scholars, not warriors or traders, to the top of public life.
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