final exam china

Question 1

Sui

Answer 1

restored China after the fall of the Han dynasty

Question 2

Yang Jian

Answer 2

founder of Sui dynasty, founded his capital at Chang’an, founded monasteries for Buddhist and Daoist monks

Question 3

Tang

Answer 3

dynasty fueled by a general with military prowess and used the fall of the Sui and the Mandate of Heaven to form the Tang dynasty

Question 4

Li ShiMin

Answer 4

Tang’s son, the real architect of the Tang dynasty

- brothers tried to kill him

Question 5

Tang Taizon

Answer 5

the title given to a powerful emperor, who continued the patronage of Buddhism and Daoism

Question 6

Xinjiang

Answer 6

northwest region that Tang Taizon had control over

Question 7

Empress Wu

Answer 7

second successor to Tang Taizon who is credit with reestablishing the meritocracy and making consuls

Question 8

Chang’an

Answer 8

a cultural renaissance as the Tang restored this former Han capital

Question 9

Song Taizu

Answer 9

founder of the Song dynasty who reestablished control over China except the northwestern part after the Tang falls to the Khitan

Question 10

Northern Song

Answer 10

960 to 1127 AD, capital at Kaifeng (before Jurchen invasion)

Question 11

Southern Song

Answer 11

1127 to 1279 AD, capital at Hangzhou (post Jurchen invasion)

Question 12

Mongols

Answer 12

Northern barbarians who made an alliance with the Song and then turned on them, capturing Asia and some parts of Eastern Europe

Question 13

Genghis Khan

Answer 13

“great king”, led the Mongols, invented the compound bow, conquered Song China, central Asia, the Middle East and Russia

Question 14

Khanates

Answer 14

“kingdoms”, his empire was split up into sections after his death for his sons, each one getting a Khanate

Question 15

Kublai Khan

Answer 15

Genghis’ grandson who built the capital at Beijing and returned to a Confucian way of government despite being Buddhist

Question 16

Zhu Yuanzhang

Answer 16

a peasant who led a revolt against the Mongols and established the Ming dynasty

Question 17

Yongle

Answer 17

successor to Yuanzhang who was very well-liked, conquered a lot of the west and reestablishes “younger brothers’

Question 18

Zhenghe

Answer 18

best friend and chief unit to Yongle who was interested in all things maritime, navigational, and related to colonizing.

Question 19

scholar-gentry

Answer 19

a new caste of men who went to school in order to pass the entrance government exams

Question 20

flying money

Answer 20

the increase of trade established a need for banks so it is the first credit system ever

Question 21

younger brothers

Answer 21

China’s ally in exchange for permission to sell on the Chinese market, the aristocrat’s sons could attend university, and they’d always have China’s support

Question 22

compass, printing press, gunpowder

Answer 22

3 most important inventions of the Chinese

Question 23

Neo-Confucianism

Answer 23

new Confucianism that claimed man was the link between the spiritual and material world and it was our purpose to figure out that link

Question 24

Li Bo

Answer 24

first Chinese poet, a drunk, dies by drowning while drunk, very enlightened, free-spirited,

Question 25

Du Fu

Answer 25

poet who agreed with Confucianism and that our only purpose was to serve others and our community (his themes leaned towards social justice)