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31 Cards in this Set
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What dynasty expanded China?
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The Tang Dynasty.
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What did Sui Wendi do as emperor?
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-Completes Grand Canal- connecting Huange
He and Yangtze |
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Why does the Sui Dynasty end?
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People are overworked and revolt.
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What do the Tang rulers do to create a powerful empire?
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-expand the empire
-strengthen central gvt. -expand roads and canals -took $ from rich and give to poor, promoting foreign trade |
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What are scholar-officials trained in?
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Confucianism and poetry
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What social group participated in Chinese gvt?
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moderately wealthy families
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Why does the Tang Dynasty lose pwr?
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-high taxes
-border attacks -internal rebellion |
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What were the most important inventions of the Song Dynasty?
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gunpowder and moveable type
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What inventions were thought of during the Song Dynasty?
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Porcelain, gunpowder, moveable type, mechanic clocks, paper $, magnetic compass
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Why does production rise during the Song Dynasty?
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Fast-ripening rice from Korea
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What is the path for trade during the Song Dynasty?
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Ocean trade, not Silk Road
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Where does Buddhism spread to?
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Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia
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What does prosperity lead to during the Song Dynasty?
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social changes, mobility, and job opportunities
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What was the most important social advancement?
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the civil service system
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What is the gentry?
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The urban middle class- merchants.
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What was the status of women in China?
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Subservient to men, their work decreases in importancy, and they bind their feet.
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What was symbolized by the foot binding of women in China?
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wealth and prestige
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Where did the nomads live?
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On the Asian Steppe of Eurasia.
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Who lived in the Western Steppe?
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The home to the invaders of the Hittites and Aryans.
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Who lived on the Eastern Steppe?
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The Huns, Turks, and Mongols.
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What was the environment of the steppes?
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no rain, dry and windy, supports short grass, extreme temperatures in the east and a milder climate in the west- more people in the west.
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What are the steppe boundaries based on?
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Politics, not geography
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How did the nomads live?
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Didn't wander, seasonal pattern. Herd animals and live on horseback. Sometimes clans come together to attack others.
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What type of interactions occured between the steppe nomads and the settled societies?
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peaceful trade, sometimes raiding.
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Who unites the Mongols?
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Genghis Khan
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What are the characteristics of Genghis Khan?
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brilliant organizer, strategist, adapt enemy's technology, terrorize conquered
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What is the Mongol Empire divided into?
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4 khanates
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How did the Mongols rule?
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Wipe out the population, destroy irrigation, no new resettlement, adopt cultures of the defeated, cultural differences --> division.
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What was the Mongol Peace?
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They imposed stability, law and order. The safe passage led to trade, ideas, and inventions. However, the bubonic plague was spread by the Mongols.
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What does Kublai Khan found?
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The Yuan Dynasty
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What happens during the Yuan Dynasty?
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-China is united for first time in 300 years
-More foreign contracts and trade -Chinese gvt/trade tolerated |
