Chapter 12 Review for Final Flashcards
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| 408800767 | Sui Dynasty | Re-established central authority in 580s CE | 0 | |
| 408800768 | Wendi | Seizes northern Chinese throne and proclaims himself emperor | 1 | |
| 408800769 | Strengths of Sui | Support of neighboring nomadic tribes, extends empire, lowers taxes, built granaries, grain taxes, strengthen Confucianism, Civil Service Exam | 2 | |
| 408800770 | Yangdi | Son of Wendi, murders dad to reach throne | 3 | |
| 408800771 | Weaknesses of Yangdi | Luxury and excess, built palaces and temples, peasant labor, unsuccessful wars in Korea | 4 | |
| 408800772 | LiYuan | Duke of Tang, took power after Sui collapse | 5 | |
| 408800773 | Tang Taizong | Liyuan's son who was given power | 6 | |
| 408800774 | Scholar-gentry | Wealthy educated aristocrats | 7 | |
| 408800775 | Changan | Tang capital | 8 | |
| 408800776 | Ministry of Rights | Administers exams, "AP Board of Ancient China" | 9 | |
| 408800777 | Jinshi | Scores highest on Civil Service Exam, set for life, names announced nation-wide | 10 | |
| 408800778 | Pure Land | Mahayana Buddhism, popular | 11 | |
| 408800779 | Exam system | Trains and educations bureaucrats, makes scholarly-gentry class, emphasis on morals/organization | 12 | |
| 408800780 | Chan/Zen buddhism | Semi-circle symbol, Japan, meditation and appreciation for beauty, appeal to elite, Zazen | 13 | |
| 408800781 | Empress Wu | Made Buddhism state religion | 14 | |
| 408800782 | Anti-Buddhist backlash | Taoists promote mysticism, Confucians embrace education and Civil Service Exam | 15 | |
| 408800783 | Emperor Wuzong | Openly persecuted Buddhists | 16 | |
| 408800784 | Xuanzong | High point of Tang Dynasty | 17 | |
| 408800785 | Yang Guifei | Concubine Xuanzong becomes infatuated with | 18 | |
| 408800786 | An Lushan | General that revolts against Xuanzong | 19 | |
| 408800787 | Zhao Kuangyin/Emperor Taizu | Scholarly military general, creates Song dynasty | 20 | |
| 408800788 | Liao Dynasty | Rival in the North, made humiliating treaties | 21 | |
| 408800789 | Neo-Confucians | Revival of Confucian thought by Zhu Xi | 22 | |
| 408800790 | Tangut tribes | tribes to the north | 23 | |
| 408800791 | Xi Xia | Empire rivaling from Tangut tribes to North | 24 | |
| 408800792 | Wang Anshi | Legalist ruler, minister of Song in attempt to strengthen state | 25 | |
| 408800793 | Jurchen tribes | Overthrew Liao Dynasty | 26 | |
| 408800794 | Jin Dynasty | Established by Jurchens | 27 | |
| 408800795 | Qin Empire | Annexed part of Song Empire | 28 | |
| 408800796 | Hangzhou | Capital of Southern Song | 29 | |
| 408800797 | Grand Canal | Built by Yangdi, connected North and South China | 30 | |
| 408800798 | Chinese Junks | Flat bottomed military and trade boats | 31 | |
| 408800799 | Deposit ships | Earliest Chinese banks | 32 | |
| 408800800 | Agrarian State | State-sponsored migration of peasants to new lands | 33 | |
| 408800801 | Egaliterianism among peasant farmers | Focus on breaking up large aristocratic estates | 34 | |
| 408800802 | Patriarchal | Confucianism/Neo-Confucianism family life | 35 | |
| 408800803 | Footbinding | Wrapping feet to a "lotus petal", in all classes early as age 5 | 36 | |
| 408800804 | Some Accomplishments | Movable type, Grand canal, gun powder,, compasses, astrolabe, | 37 |