5138580229 | china extended its borders deep into where? | central asia | 0 | |
5138582464 | what were the northern nomads considered to the chinese? | barbarians | 1 | |
5138596251 | nomads posed a military threat and sometimes conquered/ruled parts of china true or false | true | 2 | |
5138606780 | how many centuries of political fragmentation happened after the collapse of the Han Dynasty (220 CE) | three | 3 | |
5138616220 | what type of families rose after the collapse of the han dynasty | aristocratic families | 4 | |
5138621696 | were the aristocratic fams that rose after collapse of han dynasty locally or not locally entrenched | locally | 5 | |
5138627621 | what did the nomads that invaded china after the fall of han dynasty often do? | became "Chinese" by marrying chinese women, getting chinese names, learning chinese etc | 6 | |
5138637517 | how did the fall of han dynasty affect china's religion? | disunity discredited confucianism which helped spread buddhism and daoism | 7 | |
5138643330 | where did the migration of chinese people go | south to yangzi river | 8 | |
5138646900 | what happened when chinese people migrated to yangzi river? | deforestation and retreat of elephants | 9 | |
5138654349 | what three dynasties followed fall of han dynasty | sui tang song | 10 | |
5138660778 | what solidified the spreading unity during sui empire | canals linked north and south china | 11 | |
5138665106 | how were the leaders in sui empire | ruthless | 12 | |
5138667273 | what prompted the overthrow of sui dynasty | futile military to conquer korea which exhausted resources and ruthless leaders | 13 | |
5138678056 | what dynasty was built on sui foundations and quickly took over | tang | 14 | |
5138685117 | what dynasty set patterns of chinese life that endures today | tang | 15 | |
5138690139 | during what dynasties did the golden age of art and literature occur | tang and song | 16 | |
5138694375 | what dynasty gave rise to neo-confucianism | song | 17 | |
5138698168 | what was neo-confucianism | confucianism with buddhism and daoism | 18 | |
5138703952 | what were the six major ministries in tang and song dynasties | personnel, finance, rites, army, justice, public works | 19 | |
5138708142 | what was the censorate ( tang and song) | government surveillance that check character of public officials | 20 | |
5138713377 | how was bureaucracy staffed (tang and song) | exams | 21 | |
5138718397 | what majority of people held official jobs (tang and song) | sons of privledged even if they didnt pass test | 22 | |
5138725488 | what was made to help people study for the exams to be officials (tang and song) | colleges | 23 | |
5138746083 | what happened when people tried to redistribute land to peasants? | Aristocrats said nah | 24 | |
5138750644 | in what dynasty was the economic revolution | song | 25 | |
5138752816 | what happened to the pop during song | rapid growth | 26 | |
5138757550 | what achievements in agricultural production happened in song | fast, nondrought rice from vietnam | 27 | |
5138762500 | what was the song dynasty capital city | hangzhou | 28 | |
5138765335 | how did hangzhou supply food | thru waterway systems provided cheap trans bound country together | 29 | |
5138773448 | what industry increased output in song | iron | 30 | |
5138777843 | what fueled iron increased output | coal | 31 | |
5138780676 | what did coal provide besides increasing coal output | heating, cooking, pollution | 32 | |
5138786695 | why did the industrial revolution slow down | nomads | 33 | |
5138789730 | what technological advancements happened in song | printed books, nav systems, ships, gunpowder | 34 | |
5138796568 | how did growing use of paper money contribute to china commercializations | taxes paid in money let farmers sell extra food | 35 | |
5138820652 | what dynasty did women have more freedom in | tang | 36 | |
5138820653 | what dynasty did women have less freedom | song | 37 | |
5138826481 | what influenced tang to let women have more freedom | steppe nomads | 38 | |
5138829864 | what made song dynasty women have less freedom | confucianism from Han dynasty | 39 | |
5138835863 | how was masculinity changed | instead of strong stuff calligraphy, scholarship, painting and poetry was more masculine | 40 | |
5138841462 | what were feminine qualities in song | weak, delicate, distraction to man's pursuit of introspective life, remarriage of widows shameful, foot binding | 41 | |
5138849467 | describe foot binding | enhance marriage prospects, distinguish chinese women from barbarians, elite from commoners, rite of passage, small kink | 42 | |
5138861110 | how did women lose economic status in song | factories run by men, took over women jobs of textiles and silk making | 43 | |
5138868532 | what jobs besides silk making did women have in song | restaurant owners, food sellers, maids, cooks, dressmakers, concubines, whores, entertainers | 44 | |
5138879423 | what did the increase of concubines create in song | household drama | 45 | |
5138884087 | what women rights expanded in song | property rights | 46 | |
5138887089 | why were women urged to get education song | to better raise sons to provide for fam | 47 | |
5138891670 | how did the nomads and china need each other | china needed horses for military nomads needed agricultural products and luxury goods | 48 | |
5138901454 | nomads lived in tribes and sometimes larger states true or false | true | 49 | |
5138903763 | why did nomads need agricultural products from china | kept moving so no time to farm, land where they lived unable to produce crops | 50 | |
5138913334 | what did the nomads focus on raising instead of crops | livestock and horses | 51 | |
5138915940 | who controlled much of silk road | nomads | 52 | |
5138918339 | china thought of as ______ kingdom | middle | 53 | |
5138920123 | how did chinese people view nomads and why | barbarians cuz they thought they were center of world and superior | 54 | |
5138926995 | how did nomads view china and why | invaders cuz often send army to nomad land, great wall of china build, china made trading hard | 55 | |
5138932649 | what did china represent | civilization | 56 | |
5138937013 | why did some people think they didnt need the nomads | they just wanted chinas wealth and wisdom | 57 | |
5138940832 | what is the tribute system | foreigners acknowledge china superiority. to trade with china they preform kowtow and give tribute | 58 | |
5138947153 | what is kowtow | ritual bowing and lying on the ground | 59 | |
5138952403 | with who did china use tribute system with | northern nomads, korea, vietnam, tibet, japan | 60 | |
5138959452 | were foreigners willing to cooperate with the tribute system | yes | 61 | |
5138961811 | what type of nomads was china often faced with | nomadic empires able to compete with china | 62 | |
5138968697 | who were the xiongnu during what time | nomadic empire in han dynasty | 63 | |
5138970660 | what did xiongnu do to china and make them do | devastating raids made china negotiate with them to stop raids | 64 | |
5138978719 | what must china do to stop xiongnu from destroying everything | consider nomads equals, give "gifts" of agriculture and luxury goods | 65 | |
5139016570 | who are the uighurs and what did they do | group in turkic empire that rescued tang dynasty from internal revolts | 66 | |
5139030170 | how did nomads find it more profitable to extort goods | thru working chinese government thru raids instead of ruling it | 67 | |
5139037576 | what did the nomads do after the collaps of the han and tang dynasties | conquer many parts of china | 68 | |
5139057565 | what people controlled parts of north china and required chinese song dynasty to give annual gifts | khitan and jurchen | 69 | |
5139065765 | what gifts were given to xiongnu and turkic nomads to stop raids | wives and goods | 70 | |
5139072049 | "bestowing gifts on barbarians" was a part of tribute system that allowed china to what | imagine that they were in control | 71 | |
5139581460 | with what people was "becoming chinese" most popular | jurchen | 72 | |
5139585844 | what pastoral communities retained culture and which ones were absorbed into china | north nomads retained, south nomads absorbed into china | 73 | |
5139591388 | how did nomads influence china | founders of sui and tang mix of nomads and chinese | 74 | |
5139597935 | what turkic infulence on tang and song courts and military | troops led in turkic style | 75 | |
5139604549 | what dynasty had many foreign visitors from asia bringing tribute exotic goods and religions | tang | 76 | |
5139607431 | in what dynasty was culture of "western barbarians" fashionable to elites | tang | 77 | |
5139614168 | why didnt south china people (legacy to han) like the north people | for allowing women freedom, drinking yogurt and not tea and listening to western music (barbarian influence) | 78 | |
5139626422 | what states that had tributary relationship with china were thoroughly agricultural and sedentary | korea, vietnam and japan | 79 | |
5139641384 | who retained distinctive identities resisted chinese from politically dominating and appreciated chinese culture | japan, korea, vietnam | 80 | |
5139645222 | what did the borrowing of chinese culture in japan, korea and vietnam resemble and how | developing countries of afro-asian societies that embraced modern stuff and western culture while maintaining political and cultural independence | 81 | |
5139659626 | what was a major chinese influence did korea take | buddhism | 82 | |
5139661298 | early korean states were friends or rivals | rivals | 83 | |
5139664168 | on what exception did koreans resist chinese political control | when it was advantageous to join against local enemy | 84 | |
5139669793 | what did the silla do with the tang dynasty in the seventh century | allied with tang to bring unity to peninsula | 85 | |
5139674533 | what did the silla and tang alliance provoke in korea | sharp military resistance | 86 | |
5139677945 | what was the result of the silla and tang alliance | withdrawal of chinese forces and tributary relationship with politically independent korea | 87 | |
5139687998 | what did korea want to turn their state into | similar version of tang dynasty | 88 | |
5139696366 | pros of korean tributary missions to china? | legitimacy to korean rulers, knowledge of chinese court, administrative techniques, trade (mostly luxury), confucian/buddhist texts, art | 89 | |
5139711874 | what is the capital city of silla and what was it modeled after | kimsong modeled after chinese capital chang'an | 90 | |
5139715193 | what did korean students sent to china study | mostly confucianism | 91 | |
5139718312 | what did schools established in korea teach and what did they use | confucianism using chinese texts | 92 | |
5139721307 | who supported more confucian society in korea | court | 93 | |
5139724664 | what changed in womens rights in confucian korea and why | women not allowed to raise children in parents home cuz woman belonged to husbands family, no remarriage of widows, no burial of husband in wifes family plot, no female inheritance | 94 | |
5139736911 | in korea why did men legally have to have a distinct primary wife. what problems did this cause | they got privileges and status. tensions within families | 95 | |
5139744899 | korean restrictions on women later were stronger than chinas true or false | true | 96 | |
5139754403 | was there little chinese cultural influence (except buddhism) beyond elites? | yes | 97 | |
5139759000 | how often was the examination system for gov officials used. what did answer allow | not often. aristocrats to maintain control of bureaucratic positions | 98 | |
5139765319 | what is the korean alphabet called and who resisted it | hangul. conservative confucian men | 99 | |
5139769839 | didthe korean alphabet gradually take hold | yes | 100 | |
5139779209 | vietnam was politically dependent/independent, a part/not a part of the tribute system, and borrowed heavily/lightly from china | independant, part of, heavily | 101 | |
5139784673 | what part of vietnam was controlled by chinese for over thousand yrs | heartland aka red river valley | 102 | |
5139788042 | how were vietnamese viewed by china | southern barbarians | 103 | |
5139794783 | what did china do to enforce mandatory cultural assimilation in vietnam | chinese irrigation, confucian schools, chinese language, chinese clothing and hair mandatory | 104 | |
5139802858 | why did chinese flood to "pacified south" | escape internal conflicts in china | 105 | |
5139807084 | how did the chinese who flooded to "pacified south" feel about locals | despised them | 106 | |
5139812629 | vietnam was a southern _____ of the universal world (china) | extension | 107 | |
5139825956 | who led periodic rebellions in vietnam | women | 108 | |
5139825957 | what did china make elite children do | learn chinese culture | 109 | |
5139830425 | how did vietnam separate from tang dynasty | weakening of tang dynasty allowed rebellion | 110 | |
5139835278 | did vietnam maintain tributary role with china after independence | yes | 111 | |
5139841558 | how did vietnam view chinese methods of ruling. what did vietnamese do because of answer | useful. styled rulers as emperors, used mandate of heaven, used chinese court rituals | 112 | |
5139848092 | did the examination system take root in vietnam | yes | 113 | |
5139850985 | what did the use of the examination system in vietnam do to the establish aristocracy | undermined them | 114 | |
5139855802 | the examination system in vietnam gave way to ________ for commoners | social mobility | 115 | |
5139859861 | what south east asia practices remained with vietnam | seperate language cockfighting betel nuts | 116 | |
5139864610 | women in vietnam had a greater/lower role in social and economic life | greater | 117 | |
5139868855 | there were no female deities because of confucianism spreading in elite vietnam | false | 118 | |
5139872473 | women were/were not allowed to choose hubby and were/were not allowed to live in parents household in vietnam | were, were | 119 | |
5139876802 | did confucian gender practices enforced by northern officials work in vietnam | no | 120 | |
5139876803 | birth of girl/boy preferred in vietnam | girl | 121 | |
5139886594 | vietnamese writing used by_____ | educated women | 122 | |
5139891070 | what allowed japan to have voluntary and selective borrowing from china | there was no threat cuz they were separated by ocean | 123 | |
5139894902 | was japan ever successfully invaded or conquered by china | no | 124 | |
5139897323 | what did unified japanese state emerge from | aristocratic chiefdoms | 125 | |
5139902410 | what did japanese aristocratic chiefdoms set out to transform japan into | centralized bureaucratic state like tang dynasty china | 126 | |
5139903952 | who was shotoku taishi. what did he do | prominent aristocrat from one of major clans. sent ppl to china and brought back practices, made japanese rulers as chinese style emperor (seventeen article constitution) and encouraged buddhism and confucianism | 127 | |
5139933684 | what did shotolu taishi emphasize | moral quality of rulers | 128 | |
5139936946 | what chinese features were adopted in japan | court rituals, rankings, calander, taxes, laws, govt ministries, provincial administration | 129 | |
5139942956 | japanese capital cities of nara and heian-kyo based on what chinese capital city | chang'an | 130 | |
5139949824 | china liked/disliked japan | liked | 131 | |
5139952371 | schools of chinese buddhism/confucianism took root | buddhism | 132 | |
5139955601 | art architecture education views of afterlife etc reflected ______ culture in japan | buddhist | 133 | |
5139957300 | what social class was chinese writing system used | elites | 134 | |
5139960147 | when did missions to absorb more chinese cultural elements stop | 10th century | 135 | |
5139963589 | what did japan do with what they got from china and their own traditions | combine them | 136 | |
5139967374 | did japan ever succeed in making a centralized bureaucratic state like china | no | 137 | |
5139971681 | did the emperor have any real power in japan | no | 138 | |
5139971682 | who held the power in japan | aristocratic families | 139 | |
5139976305 | who did chinese style universities train | sons of court aristocrats | 140 | |
5139992465 | what social class did the decentralized japanese state create | samurai | 141 | |
5139996606 | because japan was decentralized what did local authorities do | create own military forces with samurais | 142 | |
5139999840 | describe samurai warrior class | curved blades, value bravery loyalty etc, death over surrender (bushido) | 143 | |
5140004635 | how did samurai contrast with chinas masculinity | samurai is military virtue china virtued intellectual and political achievements | 144 | |
5140010276 | what was shinto | native japanese religion | 145 | |
5140014120 | what is kami | sacred spirits associated with human ancestors and natural phenomena | 146 | |
5140016082 | what did kami do to leaders | gave legitimacy (descendants of sun goddess) | 147 | |
5140027762 | what did kami lack | philosophy/ritual | 148 | |
5140030971 | did kami conflict with buddhism | no | 149 | |
5140034193 | did kami assimilate into japanese buddhism as deities of principals | yes | 150 | |
5140039305 | japanese writing system has chinese________ | characters and phonetic symbols | 151 | |
5140040903 | whats tanka | stylized japanese poetic form | 152 | |
5140048400 | what period was tanka most used | heian | 153 | |
5140050642 | tanka written in _______ script by __________________ | japanese aristocratic women | 154 | |
5140052274 | where does most knowledge about tanka come from | women diaries and novels | 155 | |
5140059399 | what did elite japanese men write in | classical chinese | 156 | |
5140063140 | how did influence of tang dynasty influence women in japan | had more freedom | 157 | |
5140067898 | women could/couldnt inherit property, could/couldnt live with their parents or away from husbands, could/couldnt marry and break marriages easily in tang influenced japan | could could could | 158 | |
5140070135 | did japan correspond with confucian values | no | 159 | |
5140070136 | when did women lose status in japan | when samurai/master alliance replaced marriage as political strategy | 160 | |
5140080204 | elite women influence in political life was reduced because of internal japanese affair/chinese influence | internal japanese affair | 161 | |
5140084195 | chinas economic revolution lay in __________ innovations | technology | 162 | |
5140086302 | what salt techniques came from china. where did it spread to | by evaporation. islam and Christian europe | 163 | |
5140089617 | since when did china know how to make paper. where did it spread to | han dynasty. korea, vietnam, japan, india, islamic world, spain, france, germany, england | 164 | |
5140098959 | where did printing spread to | korea (movable type developed) and japan | 165 | |
5140102646 | what influenced printing development and why | buddhism bc invented to print sacred text | 166 | |
5140104038 | who resisted printing and why | islamic world cuz value calligraphy | 167 | |
5140106255 | why was printing delayed in europe | bc absense of paper | 168 | |
5140111568 | what did the invention of gunpowder trigger in europe | invention of cannons | 169 | |
5140113116 | who led the gunpowder revolution | europe | 170 | |
5140114935 | who was the compass used by | everuone | 171 | |
5140117081 | prosperity in __________ dynasty stimulated _______ based behavior | song market | 172 | |
5140121210 | silk, porcelain found ready market from ______ to east ________ and everywhere inbetween | japan africa | 173 | |
5140126459 | particular chinese technique/product stimulated innovations based on | local needs | 174 | |
5140130432 | where did china learn cotton and sugar processing from | india | 175 | |
5140136985 | didall farmers who moved to south china move voluntairily | no | 176 | |
5140229979 | where did china get windmills from | persia | 177 | |
5140232092 | what was first printed book. woodblock printing | diamon sutra | 178 | |
5140240558 | indian ocean trade brought buddhist, hindu, and muslim temples to what costal city of china | quanzhaou | 179 | |
5140242431 | did tensions of cultures erupt into violence sometimes | yes | 180 | |
5140245625 | what type of state did indian ocean trade transform china into | one more based on producing for exporting instead of substinence economy | 181 | |
5140249943 | what did merchants socially recieve not known before | acceptanced | 182 | |
5140252592 | where did buddhism come from | india | 183 | |
5140256492 | was buddhism the only large scale cultural borrowing in chinas history till marxism in 20 century | yes | 184 | |
5140258086 | what did buddhism provide an element of in china | commonality | 185 | |
5140260885 | where did buddhism enter china from | silk road | 186 | |
5140264671 | in 1-2 century han dynasty new relegion had little/lots appeal. why | little cuz barbarian foreign | 187 | |
5140266716 | how did buddhism values contrast confucian | secluded monks and nuns vs confucian family values. individual salvation selfish to confucians. buddhism abstractness vs. confucain natural/sciency (infinite eons vs finite dynastic cycles) | 188 | |
5140279663 | what did buddhism provide in the face of collapsing society | comfort | 189 | |
5140281498 | what did buddhist monasteries provide | refuge from violence, charity, medicine, reading education | 190 | |
5140287454 | monastaries had magic to win battles, rain in droughts cured diseases and relief from guild true or false | true | 191 | |
5140291231 | what were important things that changed when hindu tryna translate religion (dharma) to chinese terms | dao=the way, morality = submission and obedience, husband supports wife = husband controls wife | 192 | |
5140298512 | broader, took hold in china, numerous deities, respect relics, many heavans/hells, bodhisattvas to aid believer | mahayana | 193 | |
5140304131 | psychological individualistic buddhism | theravada | 194 | |
5140308408 | what did faithfully repeating name of earlier buddha (amitabha) do | ensure rebirth in heavan (pure land) | 195 | |
5140313170 | salvation without intensive meditation/study was appealing/unappealing | appealing | 196 | |
5140316927 | sui emperor wendi supported/didnt support buddhist monasteries | supported | 197 | |
5140318580 | what happened with buddhist monasteries in the west | got rich, exempt from taxes, ran businesses, water mills, gold, art, millions of employees, etc | 198 | |
5140323576 | buddhism never achieved independence from state like Christian church did true or false | true | 199 | |
5140325998 | how were monks hired | exams | 200 | |
5140325999 | who supervised exams to hire monks | state | 201 | |
5140331838 | what did education in monasteries require students to study | confucian classics | 202 | |
5140333566 | what did some people have a problem with buddhism | state within state challenging imperial authority, resentment of wealth, environmental impact of monasteries, celibacy of monks against confucian, when state poor look to monasteries | 203 | |
5140341240 | lushan rebellion revolted against ______ dynasty because hated _______ | tang, foreign culture | 204 | |
5140343887 | what did the imperial decrees against buddhism do | ordered monks to go back to being tax payers, monasteries etc public use, confiscate money, no more gold, silver etc to make images | 205 | |
5140350892 | did buddhism vanish after imperial decrees against it? | nah | 206 | |
5140355156 | buddhism played role in reformulation of confucian thinking (song) | true | 207 | |
5140356174 | village people kept/didnt keep buddhism | kept | 208 | |
5140360475 | unlike europe where foreign religion took control buddhism was assimilated into chinese culture and other traditions | 209 |
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