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15033780849Han Dynasty Fallcaused Confucian questioning and open door to Buddhism0
15033780850Confuciannot a religion but philosophy1
15033780851Sui Dynastyreunified Han and canal system2
15033780852Golden Agesong and tang3
15033780853Censoratespied on public officials4
15033780854aristocrat/gentryinheritances status; belonged to right family5
15033780855during song and tangpopulation grew and bureaucracy enlarged6
15033780856china most urbanized place on earthcanals/ lakes made feeding population possible7
15033780857china's industrial expansioniron, coal mining(pollution), printing, gunpowder8
15033780858cheap transit allowed...purchase/grow special crops, sale products to pay taxes9
15033780859china's bank growth produced...paper money, letters of credit, promissory notes10
15033780860N.Chinese women had freedom untilTang Dynasty11
15033780861Foot binding for womensong dynasty to be marriageable12
15033780862men takeover silk weaving causedeconomic opportunities: dressmaker, restaurants, entertainment13
15033780863new women rights in Song dynastyproperty, urged to read/write for sons benefits, control dowry14
15034145350N. nomads extort, raid, trade for china luxury goodschinese wanted horses and forest products15
15034145351China's tribute systembarbarians paid tribute: acknowledged China's superiority16
15034145352kowtowperformed by barbarians in tribute system17
15034145353Xiongnu and Uighurspowerful nomadic states that challenge china for goods and extorted monwy18
15034145354Uighurs gainedchinese emperor daughters as wives so stopped invading19
15034145355N. nomads environmentdidn't support agriculture20
15034145356N. Chinese opened tonomads culture21
15034145357S. China remained traditional and rejected"Western Ways"22
15034145358Korea, Japan, and Vietnamagricultural and not nomadic23
15034145359korea adopts China'sbureaucracy, luxury goods, Buddhism24
15034145360korea sends ______ to chinaelite to do kowtow, students to study25
15034145361korean womenmarry for love, maternal family26
15034145362vietnam womenhigh political position27
15034145363chinese controlled _____ for 1,000 years causing ___elitesVietnam, sinification28
15034145364SinificationAdoption of Chinese culture29
15034145365Japan Physical Geographyprevent china's invasion, voluntarily adopt China's culture30
15034145366Shotoku Taishiadopted chinese bureaucratic system, seventeen article constitution31
15034145367Seventeen Article Constitutionbuddhism & confucianism encouragement, chinese style emperor32
15034145368samuraiWarrior class of Japan following bushido33
15034145369Decentralizedpower dispersed among many different points34
150341453701,000 CE Japandecentralized35
15035318912southward towards Yangzi River after Han falling causedintensive agriculture, deforestation, removal of elephants36
15035318913sui endedtrying to conquer korea37
15035318914Examination SystemExaminations that were open to most males and used to recruit officials and bureaucrats in imperial China.38
15035318915Confucianism defines women/men rolesmen: artistic, poetry, calligraphy women: weak, delicacy separate39
15035468074nomads gained ____ in tribute systemprestige and even better gifts from china40
15035468075nomadic states ___ & ___controlled in __ & __ dynastykhitan, jin & han, tang41
15035468076nomadic N. Chinese rulers influenced china withturkic battle tactics, accepted "western barbarian" visits42
15035468077silla, koryo, joseonkorea's dynasties43
15035468078korea adopts confucianism leads toimpact on families: husbands family as primary, men restricted with second wife44
15035468079chinese coerced culture in vietnam red valleychampa rice region; created internal conflicts45
15035468080KamiJapanese nature spirits revered in the Shinto religion46
15035468081Tankajapanese poetry, women composed from their own writing (romance life)47
15035468082Japan womenescaped Confucian oppression so had political status until warrior culture48
15035479954Chinese commercial life/market beginssong dynasty49
15035556845Buddhism in Chinaelite provided support of buildings, provides service/miracles, chinese versions arose(Pure Land Buddhism)50
15035556846sui dynasty was pro buddhist untiltang dynasty: required confucianism, supervised monk examination51
15035556847Buddhism issuesprofit, environmental, foreign (offense to confucianist and daoist), unmarried monks degraded confucian-based family52
15035556848chinese control buddhismforbid luxuries, figures are scattered or charged tax , buildings destroyed or shut down,53

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