World Civilizations East Asia

Question 1

What was the main accomplishment of the Sui?

Answer 1

The grand canal

Question 2

What did the grand canal cause?

Answer 2

• They used forced labor, this lead to high taxes and revolt

* The grand canal connected the south to the north and allowed easier trade

Question 3

Who formed the Tang Dynasty after the fall of Sui?

Answer 3

Tang Taizong

Question 4

Who was the first and only emperor who was a woman and what dynasty did she belong to?

Answer 4

Wu Zhao, the tang

Question 5

What did reviving the civil service exam accomplish?

Answer 5

• Allowed anybody to take the test and become a high ranking government official
• The growth of bureaucracy cuts power from the old aristocratic nobles
• The test forms the new gentry class

Question 6

What dynasty was formed after the fall of the Tang Dynasty?

Answer 6

Song, Taizu

Question 7

What was the order of the 4 dynasty’s?

Answer 7

Sui
Tang
Song
Yuan

Question 8

Under the tang and song what happened to the population of the Chinese empire?

Answer 8

The population doubled to 100 million, China becomes the most populous nation in the world

Question 9

What inventions did the Chinese invent?

Answer 9

Gunpowder, porcelain, mechanical clock, paper money, magnetic compass, movable type

Question 10

What advances in farming allowed the Chinese to be more successful in agriculture?

Answer 10

• A new strain in rice was found in Vietnam
• This strain allowed the Chinese the harvest twice a year
• This advancement lead to great population growth

Question 11

What happens to trade during the tang and song empire?

Answer 11

• Chinese begin trading over the ocean using sailing

* Trade helps buddhism spread

Question 12

What were the names of the most famous Chinese artists?

Answer 12

Tu Fu, Li Bo

Question 13

What was the status of women during the Chinese empire?

Answer 13

• The status of men is always higher than women but their status falls during the tang and song period
• Foot binding becomes a new tradition within Chinese culture

Question 14

What did Genghis Khan do when he attacked a city?

Answer 14

• Offered the city a chance to surrender

* If they didn’t surrender they would destroy the city except skilled artisans and engineers

Question 15

What were the four Khanates?

Answer 15

•The great khan
(Mongolia and China)
•Khanate of the Golden Horde
(Russia)
•Chagatai Khanate 
(Central Asia)
•Ilkhanate
(Persia)

Question 16

What was the peaceful period from mid 1200s-mid 1300s called?

Answer 16

Pax Mongolica

Question 17

What occurred during Kublai Khan’s conquest to take Japan?

Answer 17

• Forced the Koreans to build board and supplies to the invasion
• 150,000 Mongol, Chinese and Korean soldiers become the largest seaborn invasion force ever created before WWII
• After 53 days of the Japanese repelling invasion from the Mongols, the ships are destroyed by a typhoon
• This even is called “Kamikaze,” or the divine wind

Question 18

What did Kublai and the Yuan dynasty do to improve the Chinese?

Answer 18

• Expanded the grand canal 135 miles to Beijing
• Created a 1,000 mile paved highway
• Moved the capital to Beijing
• Built a summer palace in Shangdu on the border of Mongolia and China, created a square walled palace in Beijing
• Encouraged foreign trade, hired moco polo, invited foreign merchants to China

Question 19

Who founded the Sui dynasty, uniting the Chinese

Answer 19

Wendi