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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| seized "Mandate of Heaven" | Yang Jian |
| Helped trade to run from north to south China and made rice abundant in the North | Grand Canal |
| 618-907 c.e | Tang Dynasty |
| were powerful and productive | The Tang |
| believed he was confucian ruler and lowered taxes for peasants | Tang Taizong |
| Transportation, Equal-Field System, and Bureaucracy Based on Merit | Policies to success |
| network of roads, horses, sometimes human runners | Transportation |
| avoided concentration of land in wealth, allotted to families based on fertility and need and 1/5 of it became hereditary | Equal-Field System |
| large land plots went to what type of monasteries? | Buddhist |
| civil service exams and was based on Confucian education | Bureaucracy Based on Merit |
| the Tang began military expansion into what areas? | Manchuria and Northern Vietnam |
| Silla Kingdom in Korea | A Tributary State |
| Theory that China was what? | The Middle Kingdom |
| delivering gifts to the over lord | Kowtow |
| left state weak | An Luchan rebellion |
| Tang asked them to help get rid of rebels in the capital and in return they allowed them to sack the capital | Nomadic Turks |
| 960-1279 | Song Dynasty |
| Song's type of government | Centralized |
| this dynasty was concerned with civil administration, education, art, industry, but not military | The Song |
| first emperor of the Song | Song Taizu |
| he expanded bureaucracy and opportunities for people to get an education | Song Taizu |
| scholar bureaucrats did have the talent to run what? | The Military |
| nomadic group that took over Northern China | Jurchan |
| whats forces ended the Song? | The Mongols |
| what helped agriculture | Fast ripening two crops a year, iron plow and advanced irrigation |
| increase food production did what? | Increased growth in cities |
| dynasty that was most urbanized | The Song |
| with cheap rice farmers could do what? | Specialize in other crops |
| what type of structure in society was tightened? | Patriarchal |
| what became more elaborate in this period that strengthened sense of family identity and unity? | Veneration of Ancestors |
| during the Song this enhanced attractiveness within women | Foot-Binding |
| where was there high demand for chinese porcelain | India, Persia, and Mediterranean Sea area |
| discovered what while mixing chemicals to pro-long life | Gunpowder |
| carve images on blocks, ink, and then press on paper | Block printing |
| credited letters called | Flying Cash |
| What was invented during this time that we still use today | Paper money |
| What was a threat to Chinese culture? | Buddhism |
| How did Buddhism spread to China | The Silk Roads |
| When where the monasteries ordered to be closed and Buddhist expelled | 840's c.e |
| The Tang and Song strengthened what? | A Patriarachal society |