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WC ch 13
EA Williams ch 13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Empress Wu Zhao | unseating her own sons from the throne, she declared herself "Son of Heaven" title of China's emperors. restored Han system of govt. rebuilt bureaucracy and enlarged civil service system to recruit officials trained in Confucian philosophy. |
| Son of Heaven | age old title of China's emperors. Empress Wu Zhao gave herself this title. no woman dared to give herself this title |
| Lo Binwang | a poet who called Empress Wu a vile character who had illegally taken the throne, was also admired as a brilliant writer to Wu. |
| usurped | illegally taken over |
| fall of the Han dynasty was when? | 220 |
| China escaped the decay of Western Europe and Rome by... | farm production expanded and technology slowly improved. Buddhism spread while learning and the arts thrived. invaders adopted Chinese culture instead of destroying it |
| Sui dynasty | (589-618) emperor Sui Wendi reunited north and south |
| Li Yuan | general under Sui dynasty. crushed rivals and established the Tang dynasty. took the name Tang Taizong. became China's most admired emperor. |
| Why was Tang Taizong the most admired emperor? | was a brilliant general, government reformer, historian, and master of the calligraphy brush |
| Li Shimin | son of Tang Taizong. urged father to lead a revolt and establish the Tang dynasty. later convinced him to step down and mount the throne himself, taking the name Tang Taizong. |
| land reform | Tang emperors broke up large agricultural holdings and redistributed the land to peasants. strengthened central govt by weakening large landowners. increased revenue since peasants paid taxes. |
| What is the importance of the Grand Canal? | linked the Huang He to the Yangzi river. food grown in the south could be shipped north. longest waterway ever dug by human labor. |
| What led to the decline of the Tang dynasty? | lost territory in central Asia to Arabs. corruption, high taxes, drought, famine and rebellions. in 907, a rebel general overthrew the last Tang emperor. |
| Song Dynasty | ruled 319 years. a scholarly general reunited much of China and founded Song dynasty. founded in 960. Song retreated south of the Huang He after losing territory to invaders. period was a golden age. wealth and culture dominated where armies did not. |
| what was an effect of a rise in productivity? | created surpluses, allowing more people to pursue commerce, learning, or the arts. |
| how did trade flourish | cities became trade markets and government issued paper money |
| emperor | head of a well ordered society, whose court was filled with aristocratic families. court supervised a huge bureaucracy, from which officials fanned out to every part of China |
| gentry | wealthy landowning class. valued learning more than physical labor |
| social class | based on duty, rank, and proper behavior. with education and govt service, a peasant could move up in society, along with his/her family |
| ideal Confucian official | was wise, virtuous scholar who knew how to ensure harmony in society |
| merchants | acquired vast wealth. were considered lower than peasants due to the fact that their riches came from the labor of others. |
| Women | had higher status in Tang and early Song times than others. ran family affairs. managed servants and family finances. could not keep dowry or remarry |
| footbinding | painful. in which feet of young girls were bound with cloth, producing a lily shaped foot about half size of a foot. tiny feet were sign of nobility and beauty. reinforced the Confucian tradition that women should remain inside the home. |
| pagoda | a multistoried temple with eaves that curve up at the corners |
| Li Bo | a Tang poet(greatest). wrote 2,000 poems celebrating harmony with nature or lamenting the passae of time. |
| Du Fu | Li Bo's friend.verses described the horrors of war or condemned the lavishness of the court. |
| Li Qingzhao | poet who described the experience of women left behind when a loved one goes off to war. |
| mongols | nomadic people. were located in central Asia. rival Mongol clans spend much of their time warring with one another. |
| Genghiz Khan | a brilliant Mongol chieftain who united the tribes. means "World Emperor" |
| new warfare | Mongols learned from the Turkish and Chinese to use cannons on waled cities. |
| mongol armies | required strict discipline and gave absolute loyalty to their leader. |
| Sichuan | a flourishing province the mongols devestated |
| Chengdu | capital city of Sichuan |
| Kublai Khan | grandson of Genghiz Khan. adopted the name Yuan and created the Yuan dynasty. |
| Marco Polo | an Italian merchant who explored China with his father and uncle. |
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