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SCOTT C. SNYDER
Barbers Hill High School
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Ch12 Text Work
The Reunification and Renaissance in Chinese Civilization: The Era of
the Tang and Song Dynasties. (263-286)
Rebuilding the Imperial Edifice in the Sui-Tang Era
1. In the Tang era that followed the Sui interlude, the bureaucratic
institution began under the Han were.
2. What is the definition on Wendi?
3. Although Wendi himself was Chinese, he secured his power base
by winning the support of neighboring nomadic
.
4. In
, Wendi’s armies attacked and conquered the weak and
divided Chen kingdom, which had long ruled the South.
5. Wendi won support by lowering
,
throughout his domains.
and establishing
6. Define Yangdi.
7. Yangdi established a milder legal code and devoted resources to
.
8. Define Loyang.
9. Yangdi led his exhausted and angry subjects into a series of
unsuccessful
to bring
back under Chinese rule.
10. What is the definition of Li Yuan?
11. Of all the nomadic people on the empire’s borders,
.
12.Define heavenly khan.
13. At the Tang capital they were also educated in
the hope of their eventual assimilation into
ways in
culture.
14. Define Silla.
15. Crucial for the restoration of Chinese unity were the efforts of the
early
monarch to rebuild and expand the imperial
bureaucracy.
16. Tang rulers also used the
the aristocracy.
to offset the power of
17. The executive department which was divided into six ministriesran the empire of day to day basis.
18. Define Changari.
19. Define Mahayana Buddhism.
20.Define Pure Land Buddhism.
21. Define Chan Buddhism.
22. The goal of those who followed
ultimate wisdom.
was to come to know the
23. Define Hymn to Wisdom.
24. However, no Tang ruler matched
Buddhist establishment.
25. Buddhist successes aroused the envy of
.
26.Define Wuzong.
27. Although
was
in
supporting
the
.
survived this and other bouts of repression, it
due to Tang decline and the rise of the Song.
Tang Decline and Rise of the Song
28. Define Xuanzong.
29.Define Zhao Kuangyin.
30. The one rival Taizu could not overcome was the northern Liao
dynasty, which had been founded in
by the nomadic Khitan
peoples from Manchuria.
31. Define Sinified.
32. Only
were allowed to be governors, thereby
removing the temptation of regional military commanders to seize
power.
33. The great influence of the
in the Song era was
mirrored in the revival of Confucian ideas and values that
dominated intellectual life.
34. New academics devoted to the study of the
impressive libraries were established.
, and
35. The means by which the Song emperors had secured their control
over china
their empire in the long run.
36. Who was Wang Anshi?
37. Who was Zhu Xi?
38. Wang Anshi ran the government on basis of
assumption
that an energetic and interventionist state could increase resources
and strengthen dynasty.
39. The Song dynasty was run by conservative ministers who
controlled the administration. How did Wang Anshi try to correct
these defects in the imperial court?
40. In
when the emperor died the neo-Confucians came to
power, ended reform, and reversed many of Wang Anshi initiatives.
41. In 1115. a new nomadic contender,
dynasty and established Qing dynasty.
overthrew
Liao
42. Politically the
dynasty was little more than a
rump state carved out of larger domains ruled by the Tang and Song.
TANG AND SONG PROSPERITY: THE BASIS OF A GOLDEN-AGE
43. List the transitions during Tang and Song Period.
44. The building of the
led to
population balance with Chinese civilization.
a
major
shift
in
45. The great increase of Chinese population in Han and Six
dynasties periods made it
.
.
46.
was intended to facilitate control over Southern
regions by courts, bureaucrats, and armies centered in ancient
imperial centers such as Changan and Loyang.
47. What promoted commercial expansion in Tang and Song era?
48. Name some of the things passed down the Silk Road between
China and Persia.
49. What are junks?
50. The first use of
also occurred in Tang era.
51. Merchants depositing their profits, were given credit vouchers or
which they later presented for reimbursement.
52.
was complemented by a surge in urban growth
in the Tang and Song eras.
53. Changan lived within the walls of a well protected imperial city.
What was outside his walls?
54. What was the Song capital?
55. Why did traders and artisans prosper in Hangzhou?
56. The movement of the population southward to the fertile valleys of
the Yangtze and other river systems was part of
.
57. What advanced agrarian expansion?
58. What increased the yield of peasant holdings?
59. What invention eased the plowing, planting, weeding, and
harvesting tasks?
60. The rulers of both the Sui and Tang dynasties had adopted
policies aimed at breaking up the
.
61. Nonetheless, the position of
under the Tang and early Song eras.
showed signs of improving
62. The
promoted by Confucius and other early
thinkers held sway at all class levels.
63. What is foot binding?
64. In which areas did the Tang and Song eras have major
accomplishments in?
65. What contributed to economic growth and social prosperity in
these dynasties?
66. What was the biggest invention in the Tang era?
67. On the domestic scene,
-modeled on those found in India,
the
swept the empire, was used for fuel for the first time,
and the first
soared into the heavens.
68. What was a pivotal invention for the Song era?
69. Who was responsible for much of the artistic and literary
creativity of the Tang-Song era?
70. As the Confucian scholar-gentry supplanted the Buddhists as the
manor producers of art and literature,
.
71. Who was Li Bo?