AP World History Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Fall of Han | 220 C.E. |
Sui dynasty rises | 580 C.E. |
Wendi rises to power by having daughter marry | ruler of Zhou empire and seizes the throne for himself. |
Yangdi, son killed | Dad through throne. |
Wendi use support of military | to conquer and reunite Chen China, 589 CE |
How did Wendi gain support? | Food banks built (granaries) and lowered taxes (equal ratio taxes) |
Who did Yangdi have driven back in the North? | The Huns |
Yangdi, of Sui dynasty, endorsed | confucionism. |
Who was Yangi assasinated by? | His ministers |
Li Yuan was a loyal noble, minister (before becoming Duke of Tang) who | helped kept military order under Yangdi. |
What did Li Yuan recognize, that was wrong, under Yangdi? | He recognized the corruption. |
Li Yuan took power after Yangdi | Became 1st emperor of Tang dynasty in 626 |
Who di Li Yuan give his power to? | His son |
9th century Tang had | great armies. |
Why did the Tang take sons of foreign nobes? | To teach them Chinese ways. |
Where did the Tang extend their empire to? | Vietnam |
The Tang united the Yangtze | River civilization. |
The Tang expanded larger than | the Han. |
Did the Tang bureaucracy shrink or grow? | Grow |
Why were gentries emphasized in the Tang dynasty? | To organize China |
What offset nobility? | Bureaucracy |
The Tang re-worked | confucionism. |
What did they call people that passed a civil service like test? | Jinshi |
How did society see those who had passed the civil service test? | They were honored and revered |
What did passing the test mean to the family? | Office was secured for the family |
Who was the founder of the Song dynasty? | Zhao Kuangyin |
What was the emporor's title of the Song dynasty? | Taizu |
What type of man was Zhao Kuangyin? | An honest, fearless, warrior who was very scholarly. |
The Song never controlled the | Northern frontier (weaker than the Tang). |
There was a push pull of immigration, in order to migrate what did you need? | A reason. |
What is warlordism? | When generals try to take command and go to war. |
In the Song Dynasty, the bureaucracy | became too powerful. |
What is Pure Land Buddhism? | It emphasized salvetations aspects to Chinese buddhism and was popular among people of China |
Why did many convert to Mahayana Buddhism? | It provided refuge from war and unrest. |
What did Empress Wei do? | Poisoned her husband and put her son on the throne (@ 700 CE); palace revolt won by another prince |
What Chinese emperor, of the Tang dynasty, persecuted Buddhists? | Wuzong |
Where did Yang Guifei come from? | A harem of a Tang prince. |
Who was infactuated with Yang Guifei? | Xuanzong after his 2nd wife died. |
Yang Guifei family made there way into | court politics. |
What did the military do to Yang Guifei after a revolt? | Had her and many family member executed. |
What dynasty started after the fall of the Tang dynasty? | The Song. |
What was Zhao Kuangyin title? | Taizu |
What type of person was Zhao Kuangyin? | An honest, fearless warrior who was scholarly. |
Who was Zhu Xi? | The most dominate and neo confucian scholar during the Song dynasty. |
Zhu Xi stressed importance of | applying philosophical principles to everyday life and action. |
Who was Wang Anshi? | A Confucian scholar and chief minister of a Song emperor in the 1070's. |
Wang Anshi introduced reforms based on | legalists. |
Wang Anshi advocated greater | state intervention in society. |
Wang Anshi introduced cheap loans to | encourage agriculture. |
Wang Anshi could tell the dynasty would | collapse. |
Describe Junks. | Chinese ships equipped with watertight bulkheads, sternpost, rudders, compasses, and bamboo fenders. |
Junks were a dominant force in | trading in Asian seas east of the Malayan peninsula. |
What did Junks have for self defense? | Gunpowder propelled rockets |
What is "flying money"? | Money credit instruments that provided merchants credit vouchers to be redeemed at the end of the voyage. |
What is "flying money" reduce? | Danger of robbery |
What would footbinding do to womens feet? | Feet wrapped tightly in silk from an early age would make womens feet smaller and produced a lot of pain. |
Footbinding made it easier to | confine women to the household. |
Why did women participate in footbinding? | It made women more marriageable since upper class (all statuses) men preferered women with small feet. |
What 2 main things was gunpowder used for? | Fireworks and war. |
In the Tang era, gunpowder was one of the | most important technological advances. |
Gunpowder was first | used in fireworks. |
Gunpowder was later used by armies in | grenades and bombs. |
Who was Li Bo? | The most famous poet in the Tang era. |
Li Bo blended images of | the mundane world with philosophical musings. |
Li Bo celebrated | the natural world. |
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