119684260 | Chang'an | Sui and Tang capital | 0 | |
119684261 | Grand Canal | Sui built to facilitate communication and trade with the south. Links Yellow and Yangzi rivers. | 1 | |
119694212 | Fall of Sui | Overextension in public works projects and military. | 2 | |
119694213 | Li Shimin | Tended power primarily toward western Asia | 3 | |
119694214 | Tang Empire | Empire unifying China. Began by Li family in 618 | 4 | |
119694215 | Governing Practices of Tang | Retained Sui practices, but avoided overcentralization by allowing local nobles, gentry, officials, and religious establishments to exercise significant power. | 5 | |
119694216 | Tang emperors and nobility descended from... | Turkic elites that lived in northern China after the Han, and Chinese officials and settlers who moved there. | 6 | |
119694217 | Tang Art | Large pottery figurines of horses and camels used along Silk Road.Chinese potters invented colored glazes. | 7 | |
119694218 | Tang Warfare | Combined Chinese weapons, the crossbow and armored infantrymen, with Inner Asian horsemanship and iron stirrups. | 8 | |
119694219 | Mahayana Buddhism "AKAs" | "Great Vehicle" Buddhism and "Missionary" Buddhism. | 9 | |
119694220 | Mahayana Buddhism Facts | Bodhisattvas, adaptation of local gods, and translating of texts into local languages which appealed to different societies and classes of people. | 10 | |
119694221 | Mahayana Buddhism Effects | Invigorated travel, language learning, and cultural exchange. | 11 | |
119694222 | Monasteries during the Tang recieved... | Tax exemptions, land privileges, and gifts. | 12 | |
119694223 | Monastic leaders gave...to Tang princes | Prayers, counsel aristocrats to support them, and contribute monastic wealth to war chests. | 13 | |
119694224 | Tang expansion westward led to | Contacts with Central Asia and India increasing | 14 | |
119694225 | Chang'an under Tang | Became continentwide system of communication | 15 | |
119694226 | Effects of Tang expansion | Complexity of Buddhist influence throughout China and influences of other countries' cultures and goods. | 16 | |
119694227 | Chang'an connected to Canton by | Well-maintained roads and water transport | 17 | |
119694228 | Chang'an became center of the | Tributary System | 18 | |
119694229 | Tributary System Definition | Political relationship in which independent countries acknowledged the Chinese emperor's supremacy | 19 | |
119694230 | Tributary System How it Worked | Each tributary state sent embassies to pay tribute | 20 | |
119694231 | Embassies used as | Means of accessing the Chinese trading system | 21 | |
119694232 | Population of Chang'an | Over a million | 22 | |
119728561 | Things found in Chang'an | Restaurants, inns, temples, mosques, and street stalls. | 23 | |
119728562 | Curfew: Time and What Happened | 8 to 10 pm, commoners returned to their neighborhoods. | 24 | |
119728563 | Chang'an neighborhoods | Enclosed in brick walls and wooden gates locked by guards to control crime | 25 |
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