Asia Civilizations Flashcards

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The Song Dynasty was in the _________ _____ of

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Golden age of arts and literature

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2
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The golden age started new standards of…

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Excellence in poetry, landscaping, painting, and ceramics

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3
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The Song Dynasty relied on earlier…

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Empires to create an bureaucratic state

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4
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The exam provided

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People to be in government positions

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5
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What crop doubled the population of china

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Champa rice

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6
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Chinas economic revolution made the Song Dynasty the…

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Richest, most skilled and populous country on earth

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7
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What is the song dynasty’s capital?

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Hangzhou

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8
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During this time the…. (Song Dynasty)

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Industrial production increases

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9
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The metal industry supplied

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Metal for coins, tools, construction, and bells in Buddhist monasteries. Also 32,000 suits of armor and 16 million iron arrowheads a year.

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10
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The industrial is mostly fueled on

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Coal

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11
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Coal provided energy for

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Heating homes and cooking

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12
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Innovations in technological stuff includes…

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Inventions in printing, woodblock and movable which led to the first printed books

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13
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Gunpowder led to…

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Military affairs

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14
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Water ways such as the Grand Canal linked up to the

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Yellow River in the north and to the south the Yangzu River

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15
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The waterways allowed for

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Cheap movement of goods and let peasants to grow specialized crops for sale

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16
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What was used most for paper

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Money

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17
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Confucian writers say that women must

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Follow the male and that males and females should separate in every thing of life

18
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Elite males must participate in

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Scholarships, paintings and poetry

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Urban workshops and state factories (men) took the skilled task of

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Weaving textiles and silk by women

20
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When did foot binding take place?

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10th or 11th century

21
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Foot binding was meet to be

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A beauty standard that women are small and weak. And that they must be restricted indoors.

22
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There was some positives for women as they were to

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Control their own dowries and inherit property from their families m

23
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Korea, Japan, and Vietnam were most influenced by

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Religion such as Buddhism and Confucianism

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Korea had political independence but also contributing to the

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Tribute system

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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.
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Korea developed an __________ alphabet known as the __________ for writing Korean language
Phonetic, Hangual
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Vietnam borrowed heavily from
Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism
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Like Korea Vietnam is
Politically independent and participated in the tribute system
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Vietnam politically used the
Mandate of Heaven and Chinese court rituals
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Vietnam didn’t really had an
Aristocratic role
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No aristocrat role meant that…
It provided social mobility for commoners and create a merit-based scholar-gentry class to staff the bureaucracy
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Female nature deities and a “female Buddha” continued to be a part of
Vietnamese tradition
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Vietnamese preferred to birth a
Female
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What is the name of the variation of the Chinese writing?
Chu nom (southern script)
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Buddhism influenced Japans…
Art, architecture, education, medicines views of after life, and attitudes toward suffering and the impermanence of life
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Tributes to the Chinese from Japan
Stopped because of the Chinese less effort to influence japan
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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
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The samurai had their own beliefs which included
Bravery, Loyalty, Endurance, Honor, great skill in the material arts and preference for death over surrender
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This samurai code was called the
Bushido “the way of the warrior”
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Buddhism did influence japan in various of ways but they believed in
Kami, Sarcee spirits associated with human ancestors and various natural phenomena
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Japanese women had less constrictions as they were allowed to
Inherit property and marriages was broken easily
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Mandate of Heaven
a ruler must be just to keep the approval of the gods.