Jin dynasty establishes civil examinations
1132
The Jurchen conquerors, having toppled the sophisticated civilization of northern Song China by sheer force of arms, turned around and adopted its Confucian examination system wholesale to recruit the Chinese administrators they desperately needed. The move revealed the enduring paradox of nomadic conquest: to govern the literate world they had taken by the sword, the horsemen had to become the scholars they had defeated.
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Also in 1132 (4 other events on record)
- Southern Song establish the world's first standing navy · East Asia · Technology
- Abelard composes Historia Calamitatum · Europe · Culture
- Fulk establishes border castles · Middle East · War
- Founding of Rievaulx Abbey · Europe · Religion
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.