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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did Xuangang do? What did he bring back to China? | Bhikku, confucianist, Buddhist brother, not Chinese, sneak to India, lost guide, Gobi, mountains, bandits. silk roads town gifts, 629-630, 12 years, artifacts to China, welcomed after over 10,000, properly translated. |
| How was Yang Jian’s leadership similar to Qin Shihunagdi’s? | Both leaders demanded that the government be strong and powerful by enforcing strict rules on the citizens before expanding and controlling all of China. |
| What important good did the Grand Canal transport? | How many miles long was it? The Grand Canal mostly transported crops to northern and southern China, about 1,240 miles. |
| How did construction of the Grand Canal and forces in Korea end up hurting the Sui Dynasty? | paid off but high cost to build, required a lot of maintenance through forced labor, hate the Sui Dynasty. ending of the Sui Dynasty because Sui Yangdi, the emperor at the time, was forcing the military to travel to Korea at a high cost. |
| How did Tang Taizong obtain his rule? Despite this, how was he seen as a ruler? | by killing part of his own family and just overtaking his father. Despite this, he turned out to be a ruler who seemed to work hard to create a fixed government that lowered prices for the poor and he actually listened to others. |
| What three policies helped the Tang to be successful? | Having a well-established and maintained transportation and communication system, equally dividing land, and having a bureaucracy, full of people with high merit. |
| Describe the Tang system of communication and transportation? Why would this help a big empire? | use of roads, horses, and humans who would run from place to place. set up and maintained stops along the way. create relays to move very quickly. being a big, spread-out empire, couldn't text the others. system allowed empire to operate. |
| What was the purpose of the equal-field system? How did greed and monasteries impact the system? | purpose was to equally distribute agricultural land between people to avoid mistakes that were in Han dynasty. worked well, then, Population growth requiring more land, high, rich families getting extra land, bribery. Buddhist monasteries, left system |
| What does “Bureaucracy based on merit” mean? | people were educated then tested be placed in the social system. allowed more people to move up the ranks to become more educated. very effective, raising smart people up the system, encouraging people to learn more, and survived Qing dynasty fell. |
| What were the tributary relationship between the Middle Kingdom and its neighbors like? | China believed Middle Kingdom and had to create order amongst the neighbors. belief spread and they began to see China as the overlord.they exchanged gifts and respect. important and impactful, helped people travel and trade safely due to respect. |
| How did the Uighurs lead to the collapse of the Tang? How did they come to China? | They demanded land after helping weakened China fight rebels, that is why they were in China. impacted many things including the already struggling equal-field system, the tax system, and the expansion of the Uighurs. During Tang |
| How did the Song organize their government? | imperial government, led by an emporer, did not give as much power to the military as the Tang did. gave less power to military officials, after revolt against Tang dynasty led by a military official. continue using the bureaucracy on merit. |
| What two problems did the Song Dynasty face? | Financial problems, bureaucrats demanding bigger rewards, some bureaucrats learned history and culture chosen to lead military. not learned about army, didn't help. China was more prone to attacks, nomadic people Jurchen took northern China. |
| Who was Du Fu and according to his poem, what was based on what you read is the poet offering military strategic advice or making a larger point about warfare, explain your answer. | famous Chinese poet lived period for poets. nature but after rebellion, struggled. so politics. military strategic advice, bowmen, winning, and killing, about taking people during the night, forcing them to fight or flight. stop drafting, expose |
| What development from Vietnam led to China’s rapid population increase? | Tang and Song, Vietnam discovered twice-sprouting, fast-ripening rice. started growing in southern China in fertile soil. creating a surplus of rice that could be eaten and traded. Having more overall allowed China’s population to survive and grow. |
| What two things led to the rapid population growth of China? | twice-ripening, fast-ripening rice, and other farming techniques. using animals to better plows, furtilizing soil, irrigation systems. effective crop trading and distribution systems during Sui and Tang. made it easier to get food. |
| What was city life like during the Song Dynasty? | vey crowded, rapid population growth. similar to now, they had many stores and public places, there were specific customs that everyone knew and followed. For instance, people sat on a specific floor, depending on how much they were planning to drink. |
| What did Li Bai write about and what happened to him? Could this be an allegory? | extremely famous Chinese poet. positive, not dark subjects, including wine. Speaking of wine, he supposedly died after drinking too much, trying to hug the moon’s reflection on the water’s surface, then falling in and drowning. |
| What were the purposes of foot binding? | to make women more attractive and to give men more control of women and girls. Men had more control over women and girls who had their feet bound because then, the females could not walk on their own and needed support. During Song |
| What is porcelain and how was it used? | During Song, type of pottery that when first made, was better than the previous materials used to make pottery. Porcelain was not only used in China, China produced and made a lot of porcelain. Today, Chinese porcelain is better known as chinaware. |
| How was iron used and how was its use increased? | weapons, tools for farming, and parts of buildings and bridges. learned of a better way to make the iron, using Coke instead of coals. so did other civilizations, spreading the knowledge and increasing the use of Iron. |
| How was gunpowder used and how was its use increased? | powerful gunpowder is, first used in flamethrowers, then bombs. The use of gunpowder increased as the knowledge of it spread throught Eurasia and as people started to discover all the weapons they could make with it, starting with a flamethrower. |
| What techniques did the Chinese invent for printing? | During the silla |
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