Sui, Tang, And Song Dynasties

Question 1

220-589

Answer 1

Civil wars/era of division

Question 2

589-618

Answer 2

Sui dynasty

Question 3

618-907

Answer 3

Tang Dynasty

Question 4

960-1279

Answer 4

Song Dynasty

Question 5

The time of the Sang and the Song are considered a ———-

Answer 5

Golden age

Question 6

1279-1368

Answer 6

Mongol (Yuan) dynasty

Question 7

Sui dynasty achievements

Answer 7

Reunification of China

The Grand Canal

Question 8

The Grand Canal

Answer 8

Canal links Yellow and Yangtze River, north to south (since Yellow and Yangtze run East to West)

Makes it easier to ship food

Thousands of peasants died building it

Question 9

Tang Dynasty achievements

Answer 9

Steel
Porcelain
Gunpowder 
Wood block printing 
Books
Astronomical tools
Compass
Clocks

Question 10

Song Dynasty achievements

Answer 10

Paper currency

Abacus

Question 11

Sui emperor’s first big project

Answer 11

Invade Korea

Question 12

Tai Tsung’s two major projects

Answer 12

Land reforms

Standardized tests

Question 13

Five Confucian classics

Answer 13

What the bureaucrats and people in government study

Question 14

Chinese Latin Festival

Answer 14

Lanterns are hung in the streets.

Solving riddles written on lanterns is a popular activity. This riddling became popular during the Song Dynasty

Question 15

Scholar gentry

Answer 15

A new landed gentry devoted to Confucian learning; the people who staffed the bureaucracy

Question 16

Dowry

Answer 16

Money the wife’s family pays the husband to marry her

Question 17

Why is the exam brought back?

Answer 17

Recruit for bureaucracy, provide leadership for provinces, strengthen Confucian ideals, to get power for themselves/take it from aristocrats

Question 18

Impact of the exam?

Answer 18

Ensures bureaucrats are Confucian, also approved by the state, entire class of people do what they can to act like Confucians

Question 19

Before Tang/Song?

Answer 19

People divided into very and very poor

Question 20

After the Tang/Song?

Answer 20

Broader mix of smaller landowners, free peasants, small farmers

Question 21

Buddhism thrived in the time before the —- and —-. Many pre Tang rulers were ——- ——–

Answer 21

Sui and Tang

Devout Buddhists

Question 22

New types of Buddhism

Answer 22

Mahayana and Chan Buddhism

Question 23

Mahayana

Answer 23

Pure land

Question 24

Chan Buddhism

Answer 24

Zen
Stressed meditation and appreciation of natural beauty
Great appeal to Chinese educated classes

Question 25

Some early Tang Emperors and Empresses —— Buddhism (Empress Wu r. 690-705 AD) while also promoting education in —————

Answer 25

Patronized

Confucian Classics

Question 26

Why would Buddhism appeal to the world where civilization collapsed?

Answer 26

Offered comfort

It emphasized meditation, ritual, and talked about rebirth and the next life

Question 27

The Han Dynasty’s collapse made Confucianism seem ———

Answer 27

Incompetent

Question 28

Buddhist missionaries…..

Answer 28

Helped people

Question 29

Stories spread about Buddhist monks having ——–

Answer 29

Magical powers

Question 30

In the later Tang, Buddhism…

Answer 30

Loses support

Question 31

Confucians are —— about Buddhism’s success. Their response is called ————-

Answer 31

Jealous

Neolithic Confucianism

Question 32

Neo Confucianism

Answer 32

A revival of Confucian ideas that focused more on spiritual things

Question 33

Neo Confucianism stresses

Answer 33

Rank
Age
Obligation
Ritual
Class

Question 34

Tang emperors support ——- to train ———- (——)

Answer 34

Academics
Bureaucrats
The scholar gentry

Question 35

Highest offices could only be obtained by those who were able to….

Answer 35

Pass exams on the philosophical or legal classics, and Chinese lit

Question 36

While many bureaucrats won position in the civil service examination, —————— still played a major role in securing office

Answer 36

Birth and family connections

Question 37

List the Reforms in government made by Shotoku Taishi’s successors. Which country’s system of government was the model for these reforms?

Answer 37

*he was a Yamoto prince (not an emperor, Soga)

Supreme ruler, Japan was split up, new tax system so that all land belonged to the government/taxes paid directly to the gov.

China

Question 38

How did the samurai and shogun affect the government of early Japan?

Answer 38

Emperor’s power (central) declines, so aristocrats turn to warriors (samurai) for hell. Armies get bigger, aristocrats gain power to fight. Rise of aristocrats led to the rise of samurai led to the shogun(when one family of aristocrats wins fights and takes over)

Question 39

Samurai

Answer 39

Japan’s warrior class; means “those who serve”

Question 40

Bushido

Answer 40

“The way of the warrior;” samurai code of ideals,

Question 41

Shogun

Answer 41

Leader of Japan from the Kamakura Shogunate

Question 42

Shogunate

Answer 42

Shogun rules; emperor has no real power

Question 43

Shinto

Answer 43

Animistic religion of Japan, worships “kam” or nature/spirits/gods

Question 44

Who already lived in Japan when a Korean religious cult arrived?

Answer 44

Ainu

Question 45

Did the Fujiwara clan adopt Chinese culture?

Answer 45

Yes

Division of land, tang style, emperors Buddhist, Chinese titles, perfect manners, Chinese writing, Chinese style capital

Question 46

Japan

Answer 46

Wants to have all Tang have, but fail b/c of the aristocrats

Question 47

Tang’s system

Answer 47

Emperor
Divide land
Taxes
Bureaucracy 
Scholar gentry

Question 48

Confucian view of jobs /classes

Answer 48

Scholars
Peasants
Artisans
Merchants

Question 49

220 AD

Answer 49

Han dynasty ends