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What ideology was there in the Qin Dynasty?

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Legalist

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What did the Qin Shi Huangdi force noble people to do?

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Live in the capital, under his gaze

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What did Shi Huangdi do with the land from the noble families?

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Made China into 36 districts, officials controlling each one

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What did Shi Huangdi and Li Si do?

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Killed confucian scholars and burned their books to prevent uprising

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What did Shi Huangdi and Li Si do?

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Killed confucian scholars and burned their books to prevent uprising

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5
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What did Shi Huangdi network build?

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Vast Highway Network

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What did Shi Huangdi’s highway network accomplish

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trade increasing

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What did Shi Huangdi standardize

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writing, law, currency, weights, measures

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Was the Qin dynasty under Shi Huangdi popular and why?

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No, due to the harsh taxes and repressive government it was unpopular.

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What led to an increase in farm production for Shi Huangdi

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Irrigation projects

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10
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What did Shi Huangdi stop?

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Internal battles

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What did Shi Huangdi’s army attack?

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Invaders North of Huang He, South of current Vietnam

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What did the Zhou dynasty do prior to the Qin?

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Built small walls to discourage northern nomads from invading

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What did Shi Huangdi do to the structures previously made by the Zhou

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Connected the walls, forming the Great Wall

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14
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What types of workers worked on the great wall

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forced laborers, many died

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15
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What was in Shi Huangdi’s tomb?

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terracotta warriors

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16
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What was after math of QinShi Huangdi dying?

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Downfall of Qin dynasty. Son was rebelled against by peasants, with one of their leaders being Han, creating the next dynsaty.

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17
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what is the huang he

A

YELLLOW RIVEr

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18
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During which dynasty was the grand canal built

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the SUI dynasty

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19
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what did the grand canal help

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trade, flowing from huang he to chang jiang

20
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Why did the people not like the sui dynasty

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overworked + overtaxed

21
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which dynasty built a strong foundation for the tang?

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sui

22
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which dynasty began the civil service exam?

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Han dynasty

23
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first emperor of tang dynasty

A

tang taizong

24
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what did the Tang reconqeur

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Northern and western lasnds that were lost during han

25
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what did Tang expand and what did it help

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network of roads and canals, which helped to pull empire together

26
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what did the Tang extent their influence to

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korea, led by empress wu

27
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what form of government did the qin have

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autocracy

28
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what did tang promote

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foreign trade and agricultural improvemnets

29
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what did the Tang reinstate and expand

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the han’s civil service exam in order to restore BUREAUCRACy

30
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what became more important after implementing the exam system during the Tang

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EDUCATION, as before, it mattered more if you were noble class

31
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What happended to those that passed the civil service exam?

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became elit group of scholars

32
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What did the civil service exam do

A

create an intelligent governing class

33
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what did moderately wealthy families during tang do .

A

shared in chinas government

34
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what did the tang impose

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harsh taxes to meet rising government costs

35
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what did the tang’s taxes fail to cover

A

cost of military and new buildings

36
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what did the tang struggle to do

A

control the vast empire they’d created

37
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what was the battle of talas

A

muslim armies defeated chinese, resulting in central asia falling into foreign rule (not china)

38
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what happened in the tang dynasty after the battle of talas

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border attacks and rebellions, ending with rebels brning tang capital and murdered tang emperor (kid)

39
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what happened after fall of tang

A

rival warlords divided china into seperate kingdoms

40
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who reunited china after fall of tang dynasty

A

Taizu

41
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first song emperor?

A

Taizu

42
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did the song armies regain western or northern lands lost previously

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no

43
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how did song try to gain peace

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by paying tributes of silver, silk and tea to northern enemies

44
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did the attempt of song to gain peace work

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no. the Jurchen conquerd northern china (jin empire), forcing the song to retreat south across the huang he

45
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what became the economic heartland of china during the song dynasty

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the south, growing rich with trade

46
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what was the population like during the tang and song dynasties

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population =2x

47
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what technological advancements were made during the tang and song eras

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movable type and gunpowder

clock, paper money, magnetic compass

made advancements in math

48
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what happened to rice during the song dynasty

A

new variety of fast ripening rice

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