Chapter 14 and 15 Study Notes.
This week highlight (include a key near the top) or sort your notes into the SPICE
categories. I would do each set of notes separately. If you need a reminder of what goes
in what categories, email me and I will send it to you. The chapter test for these chapters
is Dec. 2. There will be 17 questions with 2 bonus. There will still be a test on the
Mongols on the following Friday Dec. 6.
Chapter 14 Resurgence of Empire in Asia
The Grand Canal 282
The equal field system (283)
Civil service exams and bureaucracy of merit (include the dynasty’s name) 284
Kow tow 385
The Song Dynasty (286-287)
Fast ripening rice 288
Food binding and patriarchal societal structures 290
Technological development in China (discuss gunpowder, printing, and the magnetic
compass) 290
Emergence of a market economy
Hostility and persecution of Buddhists in the Tang Dynasty 297
Neo Confucianism 297-298
The Silla Dynasty in Korea (mention their bureaucracy compared to China) 298
Chinese influences and relations with Vietnam (299)
Shinto in E. Japan
Heinan Japan and political structures 300
Chapter 15 India and the Indian Ocean Basin
How did political order work after the Guptas? 306
Mahmud of Ghanzi and Buddhism (308)
The Sultanate of Delhi 308
Hindu kingdoms of S. India (310)
The monsoons and irrigation 310
Caste and Society in post classical India (explain how the caste system became more
entrenched) 314
The Bhakti movement 318
Funan 320