China--final Flashcards
Sui wenti
Unified china. Mirrored Qin emperor.
Sui Yangti
Finished grand canal
Genghis Khan
Rules mongols. Largest land empire.
Khublai khan
First emperor of Yuan. Grandson of Genghis.
Marco Polo
17 years in China. European.
Wu chao (empress wu)
Unethical, but did good things. Crazy lady.
Zhenghe
Maritime explorer
Li po
Poetry about pleasures
Du fu
Poetry about confucian values
Emperor Hong Wu
First of Ming. No foreign exploration.
Emperor Yung Lo
Promoted foreign explo. 3rd of Ming
Henry Puyi
Last emperor of China
Civil Service Examination
Test on Confucian classics for merit.
Movable type print
Song. Improved literacy rates
Woodblock printing
Tang. Printing on textiles and then paper.
Khan
Ruler of a khanate
Scholar-gentry
Gentry class who passed CsE and got a position
Accomplishments of Sui and the impact
Unify china and build grand canal
Brought order back to china and set foundation.
Connected the Yellow river to the capital, Chang’an for easier trade and travel
Identify and explain importance of inventions of Sui Tang Song and Ming
Sui: grand canal, unify china
Tang: woodblock printing, gunpowder, cannon
Song: paper money, movable type, early rice, compass
Ming: porcelain, big ships, explo, extend great wall
Inventions of early ripening rice, movable type print, porcelain, mariners compass impact on china
Print in bulk, increased agricultural yields, increase sea trade/ useful for navigation, valuable trade commodity
Characteristics of poetry under Tang
Brief
Single moment
Images of nature
How role of the gentry changed in China
Controlled much of the land
Scholar officials
Replaced aristocracy as the elite class
Define and explain how the transformation of the CSE impacted China
Schools set up, so more than just rich get educated. Literate bureaucracy. Efficient government
Explain leadership of Kublai Khan and Genghis
KK Less brutal, more
GK conquest, successful rule
