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NAME______________________________________________________
PERIOD_________
GOLDEN AGES OF CHINA
1. How long was the Silk Road?
2. The Silk Road stretched from _________________ to ____________________________.
3. THINKING QUESTION: Why do you think guard towers were constructed all along the Silk Road?
a. What does this suggest about what travel was like along on the Silk Road?
4. What is a dynasty?
5. When did the Tang dynasty come to power in China?
6. How long did the Tang dynasty rule China?
7. What was the capital of the Tang dynasty?
8. How did the capital of the Tang dynasty compare to other cities in the world at this time?
9. What was the Grand Canal?
10. What two rivers did the Grand Canal connect?
11. How did the Grand Canal benefit China economically?
12. Who was Tang Taizong?
13. In what ways did Tang Taizong strengthen China?
14. What events caused the fall of the Tang dynasty?
15. When did the Song dynasty rule China?
16. How did the Song rulers improve government in China?
17. What is the merit system?
18. Why did the Chinese move from Northern China to Southern China during the Song dynasty?
19. How did the movement of the population from North to South China cause improvements in agriculture?
20. Explain how each of the following improvements in farming technology impacted agriculture in China:
a. Improved plow and harrow –
b. Fertilizer –
c. Chain pump –
d. Terraces –
21. How did the shift to growing rice change China? (5 changes)
22. How did the Tang dynasty encourage trade?
23. Explain how trade and commerce grew because of each of the following:
a. Wealthy landowners –
b. Water transportation –
c. Improvements in navigation –
d. Paper money –
24. What effect did the growth of trade and commerce have on China?
a.
b.
c.
25. How did the cities in China during the Song dynasty compare to those in Europe?
26. Why did cities grow during the Song dynasty?
27. THINKING QUESTION: What is “urbanization?”
28. How did the growth of cities change China?
29. Identify two products from China that were in high demand throughout the world during the Song dynasty.
30. What invention helped spread learning though out China during the Song dynasty?
31. How did this new printing method improve China?