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Chapter 8 Quiz Flashcards

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The Sui were known for . . .

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their expansion of the canal system, establishing the mandate of heaven, and harsh leaders

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The Tang and Song were known for . . .

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establishing a state system, and were known for political achievements and cultural vibrancy

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The Sui reigned from

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589-618

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The Tang reigned From

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618-907

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The Song reigned from

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960-1279

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Chinese Golden Age achievements

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-Bureaucracy and the exam system (favored the rich)
-Profit, population, and urbanization (major economic boom; specialized crops, doubled population, cut down growth force)
-Gunpowder (created as ‘elixir of immortality’, became military revolution)

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Hangzhou

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-The worlds largest city
-population of 1 million
-Success of grand canal shifted economic focus to Hangzhou
-during qin dynasty it became the new capital started a period known as “the southern song”

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Chang’an

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capital for Sui, Tang, and early Song

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elite women enjoyed freedoms due to nomadic influence

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Tang Freedoms

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renewed patriarchy due to reading of Confucius

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Song restrictions

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Practice of foot binding

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construction of frail beauty and lack of freedom to move

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Womens Changing job opportunities

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women’s involvement in textile labor was beginning to shut down due to commercialization of weaving. New jobs in things like domestic service, retail, and “entertainment” or concubines.

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China viewed itself as the . . .

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middle kingdom

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Tribute system was a way to manage . . .

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inferior barbarians

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Foreigners were supposed to complete . . .

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-Tribute missions/ceremonial
-gifts to capital
-perform Kowtows

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The Tribute System in Practice

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-Gifts more like bribes
-Nomadic raids/conquering into China

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Khitan and Jurchen

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-Nomadic groups who seized parts of northern china after fall of the tang
-forced the Song to give them silver, silk, and tea -had them move the capital

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Cultural Influence across an Ecological Frontier

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-Agricultural lifestyle impossible in the steppes/grasslands of central asia
-In contrast the Southern people absorbed into chinese culture
-Turkic influence on courts and military (battle techniques)
-Foreign culture fashionable in Tang (music, fashion, dancing)
-Nativist backlash in south

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The Korean state Silla reigned from

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688-900

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The Korean state Koryo reigned from

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918-1392

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The Korean state Yi reigned from

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1392-1910

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Silla was . . .

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-assistance from the Tang
-first Korean state to unite the war-like leaders of the peninsula.
-although aided by the Tang they were very apparent about remaining independent.

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Tributes and confucianism

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new Korean state agreed to be a Tribute state and sent their students to China to learn confucianism later confusionist schools developed in korea.

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Yet distinctly Korean

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-Although chinese influence in Korea the elite stayed tied to their language and culture
-came up with an alphabet known as Hangul rather than using Chinese alphabets.
-Hangul became popular amongst well known fiction and among women, however it was resisted by conservative male elites.

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Japan and China

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-Voluntary and selective borrowing due to distance from china.
-Decentralized state creates Samurai
Buddhism and Shinto
-Compared to Korean women Japanese elite women enjoyed freedoms like property rights, and favorable divorce regulations

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Shotoku Taishi

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-572-622
-famous aristocrat that led a movement studying the Chinese political system to model for a new Japanese state
-started several big missions where scholars, students, artists, etc. visited and learned from china returning their knowledge back to Japan

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Spillovers: China’s impact on Eurasia

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-Salt making
-paper, and printing
-Gunpowder
-compass
A balance of market forces

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China as economic beneficiary

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-Cotton
-sugar
-faster rice
-Persian windmills
-Buddhist printing
-Cosmopolitan cities
-respected merchants

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