6762704224 | Sui Dynasty | established at the end of the 6th century by a Chinese noble family to reunite China | 0 | |
6762704225 | Wendi | a Chinese nobleman who forged a marriage alliance with a neighboring kingdom and gained support of military commanders | 1 | |
6763271139 | Tang Dynasty | ruled China for almost 300 years | 2 | |
6763271140 | Hegemony | control over east Asia | 3 | |
6763271141 | Equal Field System | restricted the inheritance of land | 4 | |
6763271142 | Kowtow | a deep bow before the emperor in which the forehead touched the ground | 5 | |
6763271143 | Middle Kingdom | the Chinese called themselves this because they saw themselves as central to the world around them | 6 | |
6763271144 | Grand Canal | 1100-miles, built by the Sui, it linked the Yellow and Yangzi Rivers as a key component to internal trade within the empire | 7 | |
6763271145 | Li Bo | beloved poet, known for his freedom of spirit and a love of nature | 8 | |
6763271146 | Du Fu | beloved poet, poetry was more formal and more concerned with social injustice and the suffering of ordinary people | 9 | |
6763271147 | Uighurs | Turkish people who sacked Chang'an and Luoyang as payment for their aid in defeating the rebels | 10 | |
6763271148 | Xuanzang | Buddhist monk, traveled to India and returned in 645 C.E. with hundreds of Buddhist texts (most famous traveler of the time) | 11 | |
6763271149 | Chang'an | one of the largest cities in the world (during Tang period) as the hub of a vast trade network at the eastern end of the revived Silk Road (modern day Xi'an) | 12 | |
6763271150 | Tang Taizong | son of Li Huang, built the foundation for the dynasty by extending the empire's borders and placating the nomadic people who had long threatened Chinese stability | 13 | |
6763271151 | Wu Zhao | only woman in Chinese history to rule in her own name | 14 | |
6763271152 | Bureaucracy | government administration managed by departments staffed with non-elected officials | 15 | |
6763271153 | Civil Service Exam | if one passes the test he will successfully land a high position in government | 16 | |
6763271154 | Scholar Gentry | impacted the social class system in China elevating the status of the bureaucrats and relegating the landed aristocracy to marginal government postitions | 17 | |
6763271155 | Tributary System | traditional Chinese system for managing foreign relations | 18 | |
6763271156 | Neo Confucianism | a new version of the older system of ideas | 19 | |
6763271157 | Champa Rice | emissaries from Champa brought this as a tribute gift to the Song Court (fast-maturing) | 20 | |
6763271158 | Taizu | 960 military commander reunited much of China under central imperial control (Song Empire) | 21 | |
6763271159 | Hangzhou | greatest trading city, became capital of Southern Song | 22 | |
6763271160 | Kaifeng | the Song capital that severed as a government and commercial center | 23 | |
6763271161 | Moveable Type | printing press technology | 24 | |
6763271162 | Junks | ancient Chinese sailing ship | 25 |
AP World History China Vocab Flashcards
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