Ch 11 Flashcards

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