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Chapter 13-15 Flashcards

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1
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Which dynasty unified China under dynastic control?

A

Sui

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2
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Wendi

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1st Sui Emperor

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3
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Yangdi

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2nd Sui Emperor

  • began chinese canal system
  • Murdered his father
  • Restored exam system
  • Not bureacratic
  • luxurious
  • loved wars
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4
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Liyuan

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assassinated Yangi and began Tang dynasty

  • expanded China
  • Improved wall
  • created frontier armies
  • recruited Turkic nomads
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5
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Sinification

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adopting chinese culture, used to reduce the threat of nomadic invasion

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6
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Between what 2 groups did tensions arise?

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Buddhists and the dynasties and Confucian scholars

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7
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Empress Wu

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  • supported spread of Buddhism
  • Commissioned sculptures and paintings
  • ruled through male relative
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8
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Xuanzong and Yang Guife

A

affair that contributed to collapse

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9
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Zhao Kuangyin

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-founder of song dynasty

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10
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What expanded during Song dynasty?

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Exam system and bureaucracy

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11
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What is neo confucianism

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responded to ideas of buddhism and hinduism; revived ancient confucian teachings. relied on tradition. hostile to foreigners

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12
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Wang Anshi

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-tried to establish reforms to save empires

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13
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who doomed the SOng empire politically?

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neoconfucians

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14
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How was the Grand Canal important?

A

important for trade

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15
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Junks

A

ships

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16
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Flying money

A

credit voucher that made it safer to travel

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17
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What did having a curved roof mean?

A

being a high official

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18
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How were woman treated during Song dynasty?

A

some had power, but most were subordinate. could divorce

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19
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Foot binding

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enforced traditional rule by making movement limited

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20
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Bi SHeng

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invented movable type and made books cheaper

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21
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Li Bo

A

most famous poet of Tang Era

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22
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When were the dynasties conquered and by who?

A

1279 by Mongols

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23
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which dynasty rebuilt bureacracy

A

Tang

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24
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What are scholar gentries?

A

appointed by emperor to do daily tasks

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25
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what was the capital of the Tang dynasty?

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Chang’an

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26
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what did the Ministry of Rites do?

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administer exams to students in Chinese schools

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27
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Jinshi

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title granted to students who passed the most difficult Chinese exam; automatically eligible for high office

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28
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WHo was Yang Guifei

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Royal concubine, her relatives led to revolt

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29
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what country was the premier of civilization in E. Asia and surrounding areas?

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China

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30
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How did China influence asia?

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  • tech innovation, modeled social, military, and political organization
  • Influenced philisophical and religious thinking
31
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What was Japan’s capital around 700

A

nara

32
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Taika Reforms

A

attempts to make japanese monarch into chinese style

33
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What was the problem with Taika reforms?

A

nobles did not like change

34
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When and where did the chinese move to?

A

Heian to 794

35
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Heian court

A

polite behavior, luxury items, palaces, gardens

36
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Tale of Genji

A

1st novel in any language by Lady Murasaki

37
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who gained power as emporer power declined

A

aristocratic families and warrior elites

38
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Bushi

A

warrior leaders from Japan, ruled small kingdoms

39
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Seppuku

A

ritual suicide or disembowlment in Japan

40
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Gempei wars

A

civil wars that waged for 5 years; emperor and his court were preserved but had no power

41
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Shoguns

A

military rulers of the bakufu

42
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Bakufu

A

military government of the Minamoto

43
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Daimyos

A

warlord rulers of 300 small states following civil war

44
Q

What was the earliest Korean Kingdom

A

Choson

45
Q

How did tang dynasty treat Korea?

A

they let them rule themselves as long as they paid tribute

46
Q

What was improved during the Korean silla area?

A

pottery and moveable type

47
Q

Yi

A

Korean dynasty established after mongol invasions and rued until 1910

48
Q

Khmers

A

ancestors of today’s cambodia

49
Q

How independent are the vietnamese?

A

very. they had their own form of Buddhism and didn’t want any help.
- borrowed only at the elite level

50
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Trung Sister

A

leaders of a peasant rebellion

51
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Nguyen

A

rival vietnamese dynasty in the south

52
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Fujiwara

A

japanese aristocratic family in mid 9th century

53
Q

Tell about the Mongols

A

Brutal in battle

  • kept artisans, and spiritual leaders alive
  • Learned from the people they conquered
54
Q

Chinggis Khan

A

continues the Mongol achievements that fell apart after Kabul’s death

55
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Temujin

A

Chinggis Khan’s name

56
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Khagan

A

supreme ruler of the Mongols

57
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Tumens

A

basic fighting units

58
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what weapons did the mongols use?

A

lances, hatchets, iron maces, short bow

-could hit a moving target 350 yards away

59
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SCouts

A

information gave mongols an advantage

60
Q

What are Khanates and when were they formed

A

different sections of Mongol empire parts, occured after Chinggis’ death

61
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Ogdedei

A

3 rd son that was elected as Khagan

62
Q

What is the golden horde?

A

mongol territory that is Russia today, ruled by Batu

63
Q

how long did Mongols rule Russia

A

2 1/2 centuries

64
Q

What was Moscow known as

A

The tribute city

65
Q

tell about Prester john

A

mystical christian monarch

66
Q

what was the toughest country for Mongols to conquer and why?

A

china,

67
Q

Kublia Khan

A

first to rule china married to Chabi

68
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Chabi

A

Kublia’s fav wife

69
Q

How did Mongols treat women?

A

better with more rights

70
Q

give an example of a group that sponsored uprisings against Mongol rule

A

White Louis society

71
Q

Tamerlane

A

Turkic nomadic ruler who reigned terror on central asia, brutal and unjust

72
Q

what dynasty succeeded silla?

A

koryo

73
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capital of Mongol empire

A

karakorum

AP World History- Elliott (6 decks)

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