Asia Civilizations Flashcards
The Song Dynasty was in the _________ _____ of
Golden age of arts and literature
The golden age started new standards of…
Excellence in poetry, landscaping, painting, and ceramics
The Song Dynasty relied on earlier…
Empires to create an bureaucratic state
The exam provided
People to be in government positions
What crop doubled the population of china
Champa rice
Chinas economic revolution made the Song Dynasty the…
Richest, most skilled and populous country on earth
What is the song dynasty’s capital?
Hangzhou
During this time the…. (Song Dynasty)
Industrial production increases
The metal industry supplied
Metal for coins, tools, construction, and bells in Buddhist monasteries. Also 32,000 suits of armor and 16 million iron arrowheads a year.
The industrial is mostly fueled on
Coal
Coal provided energy for
Heating homes and cooking
Innovations in technological stuff includes…
Inventions in printing, woodblock and movable which led to the first printed books
Gunpowder led to…
Military affairs
Water ways such as the Grand Canal linked up to the
Yellow River in the north and to the south the Yangzu River
The waterways allowed for
Cheap movement of goods and let peasants to grow specialized crops for sale
What was used most for paper
Money
Confucian writers say that women must
Follow the male and that males and females should separate in every thing of life
Elite males must participate in
Scholarships, paintings and poetry
Urban workshops and state factories (men) took the skilled task of
Weaving textiles and silk by women
When did foot binding take place?
10th or 11th century
Foot binding was meet to be
A beauty standard that women are small and weak. And that they must be restricted indoors.
There was some positives for women as they were to
Control their own dowries and inherit property from their families m
Korea, Japan, and Vietnam were most influenced by
Religion such as Buddhism and Confucianism
Korea had political independence but also contributing to the
Tribute system
Before Confucianism took hold on women they were allowed to (Korea)
Have free choice in marriage and the practice of women signing and dancing together at night. Widowed or divided women can’t remarry.
Korea developed an __________ alphabet known as the __________ for writing Korean language
Phonetic, Hangual
Vietnam borrowed heavily from
Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism
Like Korea Vietnam is
Politically independent and participated in the tribute system
Vietnam politically used the
Mandate of Heaven and Chinese court rituals
Vietnam didn’t really had an
Aristocratic role
No aristocrat role meant that…
It provided social mobility for commoners and create a merit-based scholar-gentry class to staff the bureaucracy
Female nature deities and a “female Buddha” continued to be a part of
Vietnamese tradition
Vietnamese preferred to birth a
Female
What is the name of the variation of the Chinese writing?
Chu nom (southern script)
Buddhism influenced Japans…
Art, architecture, education, medicines views of after life, and attitudes toward suffering and the impermanence of life
Tributes to the Chinese from Japan
Stopped because of the Chinese less effort to influence japan
The Japanese never had an centralized government but they instead
Having a emperor that controls the land but real power came from authorities developing their own military
The samurai had their own beliefs which included
Bravery, Loyalty, Endurance, Honor, great skill in the material arts and preference for death over surrender
This samurai code was called the
Bushido “the way of the warrior”
Buddhism did influence japan in various of ways but they believed in
Kami, Sarcee spirits associated with human ancestors and various natural phenomena
Japanese women had less constrictions as they were allowed to
Inherit property and marriages was broken easily
Mandate of Heaven
a ruler must be just to keep the approval of the gods.
