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Coach Mattox
Chapter 12
Study Questions
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How did the Sui rise to power? (Remember the Chinese dynasty cycles.)
What happened to the Sui Emperor Wendi?
Explain the tension between the scholar-gentry and the aristocratic elites.
Why did the Sui Dynasty collapse? (Remember the patterns related to the fall of
civilizations and dynasties)
5. How did the Tang Dynasty rise to power? (Remember the Chinese dynasty
cycles.)
6. What regions were added territorially to the Tang Empire?
7. What was the role of the Bureau of Censors?
8. Where did the Tang Dynasty build their new capital city?
9. How does one attain the title of Jinshi?
10. What were the advantages of being a Jinshi?
11. Discuss Empress Wu’s connection to Buddhism.
12. How many Buddhist monks and monasteries were in China by the mid-9th
century?
13. What argument did the scholar-gentry use to try and discredit Buddhism?
14. Discuss the Emperor Wuzong interactions with Buddhism.
15. In what way was the rise of the Tang associated with the Confucian renaissance?
16. What Emperor ruled at the height of the Tang Dynasty?
17. What accounts for the decline of the Tang Dynasty? (Remember the Chinese
dynasty cycles)
18. How did the Song Dynasty rise to power?
19. Who was Zhao Kuangyin?
20. Explain the role of Kitan Nomads?
21. What is the concept of being Sinified?
22. In what way was the Song Empire weaker than the Tang?
23. Why was there a significant revival of Confucian thought during the Tang
Dynasty?
24. What were the negative consequences of neo-Confucianism?
25. What was the Xi Xia kingdom and what did it symbolize about the Song
Dynasty?
26. What were the achievements of Wang Anshi?
27. Discuss the impact of the Grand Canal on Chinese development.
28. Describe the Chinese Junk.
29. What was flying money?
30. Describe the details of the city of Hangzhou?
31. Discuss the agricultural developments of the Tang/Song Era.
32. Discuss the role of women during the Tang/Song era.
33. Much like the harem and the veil in Islamic culture, what was the significance of
the practice of footbinding in Chinese culture?
34. List some of the engineering accomplishments of the Tang/Song era.
35. List some of the inventions of the Tang/Song Era that impacted civilizations in
other parts of the world.
36. Who was Bi Sheng and what did he invent?
37. Discuss Li Bo’s contribution to Chinese culture.
38. What was the overall impact of the Tang-Song era on Chinese history?
39. Discuss the legacy of the Tang and Song Dynasties.
Chapter 12
Terms, People, Events
Terms
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Period of the six Dynasties
Silla
Ministry of Public Rites
Pureland Mahayana Buddhism
Chan (Zen) Buddhism
Southern Song
Neo-Confucians
People
8. Wendi
9. Yangdi
10. Li Yuan
11. Wuzong
12. Yang Guifei
13. Zhu Xi
14. Jurchens