Chapter 12.1
China: The Sui, Tang & Song Dynasties
Bell work: What do you know about the Asian culture
Target: Understand the accomplishments of the Sui,
Tang & Song Dynasties
12.1 Assignment list
• BW
• 10 Reading Notes
• Review Q’s 1-6
• Video Notes(2)
• Class Notes (4)
• Asian Map
Chapter 12.1 Review Questions
• 1-6 page 282
Asian Map: page 278-280 (All) color scheme
Sui Dynasty
• Reunited China in 589
• The Grand Canal connected northern and southern China via
existing waterways and build new ones. Trade routes.
• Standardized currency unifying northern & southern China.
• Sui Legal Code
• Improved the Great Wall.
• Buddhism was encouraged & spread throughout the empire.
• Emperor Wen’s Equifield system reform to rich-poor gap
through agriculture.
• Tried to conquer southern Manchuria & northern Korea.
Defeated by invading Turks.
• Tang uprising ended Sui rule in 618.
Tang Dynasty
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618 to 907-Golden Age of China.
Wealthiest, most powerful and most sophisticated in the world.
Discouraged regionalism.
established through the military, silk routes which then contributed to the influx of
traders and the internalization of the Chinese society.
Emperor Xuanzong (685 – 761): flourishing of the arts, music, dance, as well as
religious diversity.
Women’s Rights developed: marriage & the Family
Tang Poets: Li Po (Daoist) Romanticism -Do Fu (Confucius)Realist
Super efficient system of government: Revised Sui Legal code, which were personnel
administration, military, finance, justice, and public works.
Medicine for Diabetes, Alchemist create Gunpowder, natural gas cylinders, Air
conditioned palaces, Alchemist created porcelain.
Song Dynasty
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960-1279 Neo Confucianism
Advanced ship building & harbors to fuel naval trade in international seaports to
boost economy.
Created China’s first stable armada in the year 1132, with Dinghai as headquarter.
Large number of schools and places of worship.
Expanded Empire postal service.
Women were given some legal rights and the ability to own land & businesses.
Population doubled due to the early-ripening rice.
Augmented the use of gunpowder into battle.
Hydraulic Engineering use of locks.
Sumptuary laws that regulated clothing and food consumption based status and
social class.
Use of copper coins & first paper-currency.
advancements in all fields of study, including biology, botany, zoology, geology,
mineralogy, mechanics, horology, astronomy, pharmaceutical medicine,
archeology, mathematics, cartography
Extension
Create a twelve point timeline of the Chinese Dynasties studied in chapter 12.
Make sure you have four events for the Sui, Tang & Song Dynasties with a
pictures, date & description for each event. It can be inventions, political,
cultural or social events. Make a creative title and organization.