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5918301979A religion has spread throughout ChinaBuddhism0
5918308714Prominent member northern Chinese family in --- -- -------- ~~ _____Era of Division Wendi1
5918328854Northern nomadic peoples founded --- ------- in ___Sui Dynasty 5812
5918342798Supported by ________ _____ & _________ for ____ ______lowering taxes granaries;food supply3
5918360703Second Sui ruler and Wendi's sonYangdi4
5918377445Yangdi restored --------- examination system, constructed ----- ----- system, conquering -----, defeated by ------ ------ from Central Asia, and assassinated in ___ __Confucian grand canal Korea Turkic nomads 618 CE5
5918412901Grand Canal joined the ------ River: ------- -----, where _______ peasant people toiled 5 years from digging ____ mile waterway with 1/2 dyingYellow Yangtze basin million 10006
5918444261"Land Equalization System"Land redistribution7
5918456118Grand Canal System connected to the ______empire8
5918463084First Tang emperor and a general under Sui dynasty ~~ -- ----Li Yuan9
5918478369Who told Li Yuan to lead a revolt? __-____-___ ________16-year-old LiShimin10
5918496963LiShimin compelled his father and got the throne with naming himself~~ -----------TangTaizong11
5918506573Who and what did TangTaizong do?brilliant general government reformer historian master of calligraphy12
5918531216---------, -------, -----, and -----(-----) became _________ ______Manchuria, Vietnam, Tibet, and Korea(Silla) tributary states13
5918547904___ __~~ Muslim armies defeated the Chinese in ------ -- -----751 CE Battle of Talas14
5918553713Achievements of Tang Dynasty:a) poor peasants given land for taxes b) advanced infrastructure c) education, arts, science, literature, and trade d) control of southern coast allowed to be in Indian Ocean Trade Network e) Silk Road trading with Middle East f) trade gives population in China g) tea from Southeast Asia15
5918711117Who were the 3 best known Tang poets in history? ~~ ____ ___(699-761), __ __(701-762), and __ __(721-770)Wang Wei Li Bo Du Fu16
5918742894First Empress and ruled for 30 years~~ ------- --Empress Wu17
5918753305____________: dominant ideology of Chinese civilization from 9th to 20th centuryConfucianism18
5918762961Treatment of women --1) Female children as less desirable than male children 2) Female infants would be killed during famines 3) Marriage 4) Women became part of male's family 5) Her family must provide a dowry19
5918819564-----------: wearing corsets in Europe and painting face white in Japan as middle class fashion statementFootbinding20
5918885756Group of ------ speaking people from Central Asia who were hired as soldiers ~~ _______Turkic Uighurs21
5918972357Weakness of Tang Dynasty seen by Uighurs and overthrew them in ___ __More bureaucratic skills (pencils) than strong military forces (swords) 907 CE22
5919024521___ __~~ scholarly general reunited China and established ---- -------; ruled ___ years with less territory than Tang Dynasty963 CE Song Dynasty 31923
59191223451100s~~ ------- people had arisen in _________ and set up their own empireJurchen Manchuria24
59191630821127~~ Song rulers are forced ----- and built new capital at --------; lasted from 1127-____South Hangzhou 127925
5919218378------: fast-ripening rice, which allows two crops per year and began the fertile fields of southern China to expand food supplyChampa26
5919270526What did Champa contribute with agriculture during the Song Dynasty?Helped iron plows and harnessed oxen (or water buffaloes), enriched soil with manure and composted organic matter, extensive irrigation systems, and reservoirs, dikes, dams, pumps, and water wheels27
5919729673Accomplishments of Sui,Tang, and Song Dynastiesa) Engineering (great canal and irrigation) b) Trade expanded rapidly during Tang and Song dynasties, which copper coin shortages developed c) Issuing letters of credit ("flying cash"-- paper money) as alternative d) Merchants deposited goods/money at a location and draw equal money/merchandise in a place (Banks) e) Mathematics-- developed use of negative numbers f) Gunpowder for fireworks and weapons with grenades, bombs, flamethrowers, poisonous gas, and rocket-launchers g) Chairs, tea, and abacus ("an oblong frame with rows of wires/grooves, where the beads are slid") h) Porcelain i) Mechanical clock j) Printing press using movable print k) Magnetic compass28
5920201859Chinese ----- are best ships in the world with Arab ----, which dominated Asian seasJunks Dhows29
5920219723What had spread of the Chinese civilization to Japan, Korea, and Vietnam?1) Buddhism-- key force in the civilization that influenced the countries 2) Sinification: extensive adaptation of Chinese culture in other regions 3) Japan-- "borrowed" heavily from China during 5th & 6th centuries30
5920259703#33 ??? continued...4) Buddhism supplied key links between Korea and China 5) Korea-- its proximity to China was more influenced over longer period of time than others 6) Vietnam-- own culture (remained distinct from Sinification)-- prepared to receive benefits of Chinese civilization but not lose their identity; Chinese techniques made Vietnamese agriculture (most productive) in Southeast Asia31

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