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| 7922709334 | Special about Tang and Song Dynasties | largest and most prosperous; huge population; advanced Chinese society; ruled from 7th to 13th century; most of population lived in cities | 0 | |
| 7922721136 | Hangzhou | capital city of Song rulers; many canals and bridges; Yangzi- important of trade; artisans; parks | 1 | |
| 7922733498 | Rise of Sui | 580 CE; ended period of political chaos after fall of Qin and Han | 2 | |
| 7922743985 | How Wendi rose to power | seized throne from son-in-law; support of nomads; proclaimed himself emperor; took on title "Wendi" meaning emperor; claimed to be founder of Sui | 3 | |
| 7922772561 | Support Wendi needed | nomadic military commanders- reaffirmed titles; support of lower class- lowered taxes and established granaries; showed little desire to favor Confucianism | 4 | |
| 7922791270 | What did Wendi do at beginning of his reign | lowered taxes and granaries- ensure steady supply of food for natural disasters and famine | 5 | |
| 7922812044 | What kingdom did Wendi conquer in 589 | Chen Kingdom; reunited traditional core areas of Chinese civilizations | 6 | |
| 7922817352 | Yangdi | 2nd member of Sui; murdered father for throne; continued expansionism; favored Confucian scholar gentry; further centralized dynasty; brought back exams for bureaucracy; Confucian teachings | 7 | |
| 7922869608 | Yangdi contributed to dynasty | brought in legal and Confucian reforms; milder laws; restored examination system and Confucian education | 8 | |
| 7922896298 | Things Yangdi did to signal end | became fond of luxury; construction projects forcibly conscripted peasants to build them; led unsuccessful wars against Korea; Loung; Great Canal; many revolts | 9 | |
| 7922919067 | What happened to Yangdi | assassinated by own ministers in 618 CE | 10 | |
| 7922940815 | Led to downfall of Sui | series of unsuccessful wars; unsuccessful military campaigns in Korea; governors declared themselves independent rulers | 11 | |
| 7922953729 | Who rose to power to create Tang | Li Yuan- considered founder of Tang;laid foundation of Golden Age for Tang; around 618 CE; took advantage of peasant unrest | 12 | |
| 7922977716 | Tang armies | built empire larger than Han; conquered deep into Central Asia | 13 | |
| 7922988655 | How far did the Tang go geographically | larger than Han; extended beyond border of present-day China | 14 | |
| 7922997267 | What role did nomadic people have under the Tang | submit to Tang rule | 15 | |
| 7923003495 | How did Tang handle Nomadic people to keep them in check | frontier armies; sons of Turkic tribal leaders captured as hostages to guarantee good behavior of tribe | 16 | |
| 7923012023 | Silla | vassal kingdom; established in 668 CE; remained loyal to Tang | 17 | |
| 7923021350 | Played key role in rebuilding imperial bureaucracy | scholar gentry and Confucian ideology brought back | 18 | |
| 7923029752 | Shared political power in Tang | succession of imperial families and bureaucrats of service system | 19 | |
| 7923036777 | Ran day to day basis of empire | executive department- divided into six ministries- Justice, Public works, and War; Bureau of censors; staff ran imperial household | 20 | |
| 7923054702 | New Tang capital | Chang'an- largest city at time about 2 million people | 21 | |
| 7923061592 | Attitude of Tang towards Confucian scholar gentry | supported scholar gentry before aristocrats | 22 | |
| 7923068965 | What was expanded during Tang and Song | examination system expanded and pattern of advancement in civil service much more regulated | 23 | |
| 7923075514 | Minister of Rites | administrated examinations to students from Chinese government schools or those recommended by distinguished scholars | 24 | |
| 7923084666 | Jinshi | passed most difficult examination; earn special social status | 25 | |
| 7923092483 | Become Tang bureaucrat | do well on civil service exams; birth and family connections; sons followed fathers | 26 | |
| 7923101436 | Religion practiced in China | Pure land Buddhism- founded by monks, salvation; Chan or Zen- meditation, appreciation of nature, and artistic beauty | 27 | |
| 7923115134 | Empress Wu | Tang ruler 690-705; supported Buddhism; tried to elevate Buddhism to state religion; made shrines to Buddha; statues and paintings; pagota; 50000 monasteries; hundreds of monks | 28 | |
| 7923134454 | Who tried to damage Buddhist appeal | Daoist monks and Confucian scholars; growing campaign of Confucian scholars administration who tried to convince Tang rulers Buddhist monasteries threat to imperialism and economy; resented tax and military exempts | 29 | |
| 7923152743 | What happened under Wuzong | monasteries and shrines destroyed; 841 to 847; slaves and peasants heavily taxed; monks and nuns forced to leave to civilization | 30 | |
| 7923168216 | Buddhism at end of repression | survived but weakened; never again have same political power | 31 | |
| 7923174495 | Xuanzong | emperor who reigned high point of Tang power; after 2nd wife infactuated by Yang who put relatives into power and led royal concubine | 32 | |
| 7923190021 | Problems of Tang in last years | affair with Yang distracted Xuanzong from state affairs; nomads led revolt in northern China plains; revolts Anlaushun to find new dynasty; many gov officials collected own taxes- little money to imperial treasury; Yang Chao rebellion | 33 | |
| 7923214429 | Song dynasty founded | 960; Zhao Kuangyin; collected books not booty | 34 | |
| 7923222401 | First Song emperor united China where | Jin, Silla, Jurchen, Hangzhou | 35 | |
| 7923227880 | Where did Song not restore unity | Liao Dynasty | 36 | |
| 7923231614 | Weakened Emperor Taizu | Liao dynasty and nomadic people of north; destroyed by Mongols | 37 | |
| 7923239217 | Dynasty largest | Tang | 38 | |
| 7923243428 | Weaknesses of Song | military subordinate to civilian administrators of scholar gentry class; only civil officers could be governors; official's salary increased; bureaucracy bloated with high paid officials | 39 | |
| 7923258720 | Zhu Xi | prominant of neo- Confucian scholars during Song dynasty; stressed importance of applying philosophical principles to everyday life | 40 | |
| 7923270892 | Impacts of Neo-Confucianism | emphasized ranked tradition- reinforced class, age, and gender distinctions; hostility to foreign philosophy like Buddhism; stifled innovation and critical thinking- traditionalism; morality highest school for humans | 41 | |
| 7923287015 | Tangut tribes | Xi Xia Kingdom; Tibet; Song had to pay for protection, draining money from empire | 42 | |
| 7923294713 | Wang Anshi | chief minister of Song; cheap loans; irrigation projects; taxed landlords and scholarly classes; exams and education; based on Legalism; greater state intervention; increased agricultural output | 43 | |
| 7923310054 | Caused Song to move south | Jurchins; formed Jin; forced Song south; survived 150 years | 44 | |
| 7923317437 | Grand Canal | link original centers of Chinese civilizations on North China plain with Yangzi River basin; essential to China's agrarian base and for food; Sui dynasty | 45 | |
| 7923332766 | Economic and commercial developments during Tang and Song | Silk trade routes reopened to Persia; larger markets in cities and towns; forms of credit available; trade carried by Chinese ships and sailors | 46 | |
| 7923342259 | Chinese junks | Chinese ships equipped with water tight bulkheads, oars, sternpost rudders, and compass | 47 | |
| 7923350562 | Flying money | Chinese credit instrument; redeemed at end of voyage | 48 | |
| 7923358785 | Results of agricultural policies of Tang and Song | number of free peasants increased greatly; new seeds and manures increased yields of peasant farmers; land distributed more equally among free peasant households; fortunes of old aristocratic families declined | 49 | |
| 7923393630 | Women in society | women subordinate to men except for high class urban women; opportunities for personal expression increased; divorce allowed under mutual consent | 50 | |
| 7923413194 | Women's roles | homemaker and mother- bearer of sons; virginity; no education or power | 51 | |
| 7923419672 | Men permitted | premarital sex; concubines; remarry; inheritance and divorce favored men; Neo- Confucian philosophy | 52 | |
| 7923438216 | Difference between marriage, family, and households of upper and lower class | extended family households more common in upper class | 53 | |
| 7923441988 | Foot binding | Tang/ Song Era; mutilating women's feet to make smaller; crippled women; lasted long time | 54 | |
| 7923463704 | Technological and scientific breakthroughs | Grand Canal; bridges; gun powder; abacus- ancestor of calculator; pole for heat | 55 | |
| 7923472009 | Bi Sheng | devised printing with movable type | 56 | |
| 7923480969 | Responsible for production of artistic works | scholar gentry elite and members of royal political elite; Confucian thinkers produced paintings | 57 | |
| 7923496391 | What type of paintings | landscapes | 58 | |
| 7923498841 | Li Bo | most famous poet of Tang era; blended images of world with philosophical musings; interest in nature; painted landscapes | 59 | |
| 7923509768 | Responsible for fall of southern Song in 1279 | Mongols | 60 |
