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China and Japan
Unit Review
aristocracy
civil service examinations
meritocracy
Han dynasty
Tang dynasty
Song dynasty
Yuan dynasty
Ming dynasty
Mongols
Mandate of Heaven
bureaucracy
Kublai Khan
urbanization
currency
junk
barge
navigation
canals
paddies
terraces
compass
canal lock
segmental arch
bridge
paper making
woodblocks
moveable type
porcelain
steel
alchemy
gunpowder
rockets
paper money
playing cards
mechanical clock
inoculation
vaccine
Xuan Zang
Buddhism
Silk Road
Marco Polo
tributaries
kowtow
Zheng He
Barbarians
cultural diffusion
Shinto
kanji
kana
tanka
pagoda
Heian period
corruption
Heian-kyo
Fujiwara family
courtiers
samurai
shogun
daimyo
 What is an imperial government?
 How did Imperial Chinese dynasties justify their power and how is it similar to other
peoples we’ve learned about this year?
 Why did the introduction of civil service examinations under the Tang dynasty improve the
bureaucracy?
 The Tang and the Song dynasty both had civil service exams, but their dynasties were
significantly different. How were they different and how did that difference come about?
 How did Confucianism influence Song emperors?
 Why did agricultural changes occur during the Song dynasty? What were the main
agricultural changes? What impact did those changes have?
 How did the use and importance of tea change in China over time?
 What was one of the biggest economic changes during the Song dynasty? How did it come
about?
 Why did urbanization occur during the Song dynasty? What were Chinese cities like
compared to other cities of the time around the world? What were some of the effects of
urbanization?
 What influence did Confucianism have on the lives of women during the Song dynasty?
What practice became common during that period?
 What inventions made exploration and travel safer and faster?
 Explain how each of these early Chinese inventions and discoveries are connected to the
rest of the world and today: paper, printing, porcelain, and steel.
 Explain how woodblock printing make possible the invention of such things as playing
cards and paper money.
 How did Buddhism come to China and who was responsible for its biggest introduction?
 What types of cultural exchanges resulted from the silk road during the Tang dynasty?
 What are tributaries? How did Zheng He’s overseas journeys help expand China’s foreign
contacts?
 What caused the Han, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties to collapse?
 Describe Japan’s geography? How are all the ways that geography impacted it’s
development. (Consider the islands, neighboring cultures, and mountains.)
 How did the government of Japan during the time of Prince Shotoku’s reign compare with
that of China? Which Chinese ideas about government did Japanese rulers adopt, which
did they not?
 How was Japan’s capital city, Nara, similar and different to the Chinese capital city,
Chang’an?
 How did Buddhism spread to Japan and how did the Japanese make it unique for their
culture?
 Describe how the Japanese adopted aspects of language, poetry, sculpture and other
elements of culture from their neighbors
 Why is the Heian period called Japan’s Golden Age?
 Describe life within Heian-kyo. How was the city designed? How did people live?
 How did the Fujiwara family of Japan exercise their power?
 What determined social rank during the Heian period? How did rank affect people’s daily
experiences?
 What value did Heian society place on beauty and fashion? How did men and women
groom themselves?
 What factors contributed to the end of the Heian period? In what ways can Heian
influences be seen in modern Japan?
 How was military rule established in Japan during the 12th century?
 Explain the role of shoguns, daimyos, and samurai in the military government of Japan?
 In what areas did the samurai receive training?
 How do samurai values and traditions influence modern Japanese society?
 In what ways was medieval Japan similar to medieval Europe?