Chaper 11 Test Tuesday Flashcards
Te purpose of the grand canal was to?
Facilitate communication and the trade with the south
The Sui empires lasted such a short time because?
It was exhausted by its extra ordinary pace of expansions and over centralization
The Sui empire successfully reunified China and?
Reestablished Confucianism as the central philosophy of gov.
One of the beliefs of Mahayana Buddhism was that?
Bodhisattvas have postponed nirvana to help others achieve enlightenment
The central Asians heritage of the Tang rulers was evident in?
Their political use of Buddhism
How did the bubonic plague reach east Asia?
It came from Africa spread to the Middle East and then went by sea to canton
Which Factor did not make the Chinese uncomfortable with Buddhism?
Buddhism often absorbed local elements of belief
Wu Zhao a women who had married into the imperial family was known?
For serving as emperor for 15 years
The Song used gun powder to?
Counter Calvary assaults
The Song gov. Like the Tang recognized that with its control of government examinations it also had?
The ability to in doctrine millions of young men
What was not a feature of Song Cities?
Rodent infestations
What was features of the song cities?
It they did have multi-story wooden apartment houses, narrow streets and advanced water systems
The most dramatic change in the status of Chinese women during the Song Dynasty was manifested by?
Foot binding
Why was rice growing well suited to Confucian ideology?
It demanded the cooperation of large Kin groups
Where was movable type originally developed?
Korea the believe
Central Japan was most likely unified in the fourth or fifth century C.E by?
Korean warriors on horse back.
Japan during the eighth century can be described as?
A major Buddhist center, perhaps surpassing China
The concept of the Mandate of Heaven was not important in Japan because?
Japanese rulers always came from the same family
The early Annamese were probably not a head of Chinese in their?
Military tactics
The combination of loneliness free time and writing encouraged Japanese women to?
Produce an outpouring of poetry, diaries and novels
The trunk sisters of Vietnam?
Led local farmers in resistance against invaders forces of the Han empire.
In 618 the li family ended Sui rule and created the?
Tang empire
In China the most important Buddhist school of teaching was Mahayana or ———- Buddhism?
“Great vehicle”
China’s development of its cotton production during the Tang period was an example of ——– the domestic production. And sale of goods that had previously been imported?
Import substitution
Under a new Turkic group, the________ Central Asia ‘s great cities enjoyed a literate culture with strong ties to both the Islamic world and China
Uigurs
Variations on the name of the______ became the name for China I. Mongolia and Russia
Kitans
Chan, Buddhism, known as______ in Japan asserted that salvation was possible through mental discipline alone
Zen
Intercity or interregional credit- what the song called “_________” - depended on the acceptance of guarantees that the paper could be redeemed for coinage at another location
Flying money
He small Korean kingdoms were distinguished for their knowledge of the horse their strong heredity elites, and their ________ (belief in the ability of certain individuals to make direct contact with ancestors and the invisible spirit world)
Shamanism
The _______, the first three decentralized military regines of Japan, was established in eastern Honshu
Kamakura Shogunate
________- fast maturing rice allows for the two harvests in one growing season
Champa rice
Grand canal-
1,100 mile waterway linking the yellow in the Yangzi rivers. It was begun in the Han period And completed during the Sui Empire
Tang empire
Empire unifying China and part of Central Asia, founded 618! And ended 907 the Tang emperors presided over a magnificent court at their capital, chang’an
Li shimin
One of the founders of the tang empire. He led the expansion of the empire into Central Asia
Tributary system
A system in which from the time of the Han Empire countries east and southeast Asia not under the direct control of empires based in China nevertheless enrolled as tributary states acknowledging the superiority of the empires in China in exchange for trading rights or Strategic alliances
Bubonic plague
A disease of fleas that can be transmitted by flea bites to rodents and humans in late stages of disease it can be spread by coughing high mortality rate also known as Black death
Uigurs
A group of Turkic speakers who controlled their own centralize empire from 744 to 840 in Mongolia and Central Asia
Song empire
In central and southern China well the Liao people controlled the north empire in southern China while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technologies, medicine, astronomic, math
Junk
A very large flat bottom sailing ship produced in the tang and song Empire especially designed for long distant commercial travel
Gun powder
Brought to China in the 400s or 500s first used as fumigators to keep away insects and evil spirits and later centuries it was used to create explosions
Zen
The Japanese word for a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on highly disciplined meditation
Shamanism
Practice of identifying special individuals who will interact with spirits
Koryo
Korean kingdom found it in 918 and destroyed by a Mongol invasion in 1259
Movable type
Type in which each individual character is on a separate piece of metal replaced woodblock printing
Kamakura Shogunate
The first of Japan’s decentralize military governments
Champa rice
Quick maturing rice that can allow 2 harvest in one growing season
