AP World History China Flashcards

7618344524	Han empire social structure	emperor state officials pesants artisans/merchants soldiers slaves	0
7618352524	emperor	had divine authority and was considered to be the link between heaven and earth	1
7618358939	peasants	paid part of their yearly crops to the government and donated 1 month's worth of labor	2
7618372026	where did the 1 months worth of labor go to	the construction of roads, canals, and irrigation ditches and the expansion of the Great Wall	3
7618441313	what did the emperor follow	the mandate from heaven	4
7618444986	advisors	confucian scholars/government officials	5
7618448115	commandaries	40 administrative units each with a military and a civil administrator and and inspector for the emperor	6
7618455527	capital	Ch'ang-an	7
7618457950	Civil Service Exams	to qualify for government jobs (had to pay for the exams- excluding all but wealthy classes)	8
7618465968	emperor Wudi	141-87 BCE (ruled for 54 years)	9
7618476054	what did emperor Wudi establish	an elite military to teach confucianism	10
7618481547	how did he expand the empire	he expanded the empire though war (doubled the size)	11
7618486954	which 3 places did he colonize	Manchuria, Korea, and Vietnam	12
7618499315	Who did they fight under emperor Wudi	fought the Xiognu who were raiding farmlands on the border	13
7618529390	what did people write on before the invention of paper	pottery, bones, stone, silk, wood, and bamboo	14
7618534175	who invented paper and how	Han by using the hemp plant which was later made stronger by using mulberry bark	15
7618552958	where did the use of paper first spread	korea and japan then to Arab by the 700s then to europe	16
7618568971	how was a family land divided	equally among the male heirs	17
7618573782	when did the silk roads begin	during the Han dynasty in 57 BCE	18
7618575999	what are the silk roads	long distance trade route connecting China and Rome	19
7618586663	what were some items that were traded on the silk roads	silk, spices, jewels, and gold objects along with culture, ideas, and diseases	20
7618595760	how did people travel on the silk roads	caravan (using camels)	21
7618599419	who were the middlemen	nomads from central asia	22
7618605387	what did the Han government have monopolies in	salt and iron, minting coins and alcohol and for a long time silk mills	23
7618613986	when did buddhism first enter	in china durin ghee Han dynasty thought the silk roads	24
7618620227	where was the birthplace of buddhism	india	25
7618626777	what did the buddhist religion consist of	compassion and religion	26
7618644494	what two other forms did buddhism mix very well with	confucianism and daoism	27
7618648835	what did women adhere to	confucian ideology: serving the family, particularly the males in the family	28
7618655953	what were some roles upper class women were able to become	buddhist or daoist nuns -live apart from their families, small shop owners, medical practitioners	29
7618679532	who seized power from the Liu family	Wang Mang (9-23 CE)	30
7618685903	what caused chaos in the han dynasty	attempted reforms of land ownership	31
7618687988	what led to conscription	the waging war on the edges of the empire	32
7618695703	what were some contributions to the collapse of the han empire	taxes, famines ,floods and inflation which led to peasant uprisings	33
7618708749	what are the dates on the later Han period	23-220 CE	34
7618715295	alliances with whom were made along the great wall	barbarians	35
7618720017	what was give to border tribes so they would invade	silk cloth	36
7618722642	what is assimilation	adoption/ absorption of chinese language, customs and cultures by foreign groups	37
7618775355	what were the dates of the peasant revolt	184 CE (yellow turban rebellion)	38
7618780557	describe the Yellow Turban Rebellion	started by a taoist faith healer and it lasted 2 decades; huge armies were conscripted but at a huge cost	39
7618791608	why was there no clear lines of succession	the last emperor abdicated	40
7618797992	how long was china divide into 3 regional states	400 years	41
7618812346	what remained in the 3 regions states	the underlying unity endured (language, culture)	42
7618814593	Sui dynasty dates	581- 618	43
7618820722	what did the sui dynasty do for china	it reunified it after 400 years of fragmentation	44
7618824764	what did the Sui dynasty complete	the grand canal from the north to the south	45
7618827735	what rivers did the grand canal connect	Huang He (yellow river) to the Yangtze	46
7618831499	why did the sui dynasty fall	couldn't afford to sustain the military	47
7618848525	what dyansty did the tang dynasty follow	the Sui	48
7618859705	where did the Tang extend their empire to	outer china- Mongolia;central asia to the frontier of iran; north vietnam and korea	49
7618865532	what did the tang dynasty invent	the 1st block printing press which spread the buddhist teachings	50
7618870772	what did japan accept	cultural hegemony	51
7618884201	what did the chinese introduce to japan	rice, bronze, iron, written script, buddhism	52