China Flashcards
What ideology was there in the Qin Dynasty?
Legalist
What did the Qin Shi Huangdi force noble people to do?
Live in the capital, under his gaze
What did Shi Huangdi do with the land from the noble families?
Made China into 36 districts, officials controlling each one
What did Shi Huangdi and Li Si do?
Killed confucian scholars and burned their books to prevent uprising
What did Shi Huangdi and Li Si do?
Killed confucian scholars and burned their books to prevent uprising
What did Shi Huangdi network build?
Vast Highway Network
What did Shi Huangdi’s highway network accomplish
trade increasing
What did Shi Huangdi standardize
writing, law, currency, weights, measures
Was the Qin dynasty under Shi Huangdi popular and why?
No, due to the harsh taxes and repressive government it was unpopular.
What led to an increase in farm production for Shi Huangdi
Irrigation projects
What did Shi Huangdi stop?
Internal battles
What did Shi Huangdi’s army attack?
Invaders North of Huang He, South of current Vietnam
What did the Zhou dynasty do prior to the Qin?
Built small walls to discourage northern nomads from invading
What did Shi Huangdi do to the structures previously made by the Zhou
Connected the walls, forming the Great Wall
What types of workers worked on the great wall
forced laborers, many died
What was in Shi Huangdi’s tomb?
terracotta warriors
What was after math of QinShi Huangdi dying?
Downfall of Qin dynasty. Son was rebelled against by peasants, with one of their leaders being Han, creating the next dynsaty.
what is the huang he
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During which dynasty was the grand canal built
the SUI dynasty
what did the grand canal help
trade, flowing from huang he to chang jiang
Why did the people not like the sui dynasty
overworked + overtaxed
which dynasty built a strong foundation for the tang?
sui
which dynasty began the civil service exam?
Han dynasty
first emperor of tang dynasty
tang taizong
what did the Tang reconqeur
Northern and western lasnds that were lost during han
what did Tang expand and what did it help
network of roads and canals, which helped to pull empire together
what did the Tang extent their influence to
korea, led by empress wu
what form of government did the qin have
autocracy
what did tang promote
foreign trade and agricultural improvemnets
what did the Tang reinstate and expand
the han’s civil service exam in order to restore BUREAUCRACy
what became more important after implementing the exam system during the Tang
EDUCATION, as before, it mattered more if you were noble class
What happended to those that passed the civil service exam?
became elit group of scholars
What did the civil service exam do
create an intelligent governing class
what did moderately wealthy families during tang do .
shared in chinas government
what did the tang impose
harsh taxes to meet rising government costs
what did the tang’s taxes fail to cover
cost of military and new buildings
what did the tang struggle to do
control the vast empire they’d created
what was the battle of talas
muslim armies defeated chinese, resulting in central asia falling into foreign rule (not china)
what happened in the tang dynasty after the battle of talas
border attacks and rebellions, ending with rebels brning tang capital and murdered tang emperor (kid)
what happened after fall of tang
rival warlords divided china into seperate kingdoms
who reunited china after fall of tang dynasty
Taizu
first song emperor?
Taizu
did the song armies regain western or northern lands lost previously
no
how did song try to gain peace
by paying tributes of silver, silk and tea to northern enemies
did the attempt of song to gain peace work
no. the Jurchen conquerd northern china (jin empire), forcing the song to retreat south across the huang he
what became the economic heartland of china during the song dynasty
the south, growing rich with trade
what was the population like during the tang and song dynasties
population =2x
what technological advancements were made during the tang and song eras
movable type and gunpowder
clock, paper money, magnetic compass
made advancements in math
what happened to rice during the song dynasty
new variety of fast ripening rice
