The Tang Dynasty | The Song Dynasty | Inventions | Chinese Prosperity | Chinese Society |
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Who is Tang Taizong?
Tang emperor who created a powerful empire
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What is a dynasty?
A ruling family
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What is the mechanical clock?
Clock in which machinery (drive by running water) regulated the movements
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What is a junk?
Chinese ships that were very advanced with sails and compasses
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What is foot binding?
Women who wanted to marry wealthy men, did this to their feet.
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Who is Wu Zhoa?
Powerful women empress
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Who is Taizu?
First Song Emperor
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What is paper money?
Paper currency issued by Song government
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What is the Silk Road?
Trade routes that connected China to the West.
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What are peasants?
Class of people who helped build the Great Wall of China and the Grand Canal
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What is the civil service exam?
Test that people took to get a job in the government
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What is rice?
This became an important crop
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What is porcelain?
Bone hard, white ceramic made of a special clay
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What is accupuncture?
Treatment that involves inserting needles into the body at specific points
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What is the gentry?
Class of people who attained their status through education and civil service
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What is scholar official?
People who passed the civil service exam
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What are natural landscapes?
Art of the Song Dynasty focused on _________.
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What is moveable type?
Blocks of individual characters in a frame to make a page for printing
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What are terraced fields?
Level platforms that farmers cut into the sloping land that allowed them to grow crops
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What is inferior?
Women were considered __________ to men.
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What is 300 years?
The Tang Dynasty ruled for nearly__________ years.
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Who is Taizu?
First Song Emperor
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What is explosive powder?
First used for fireworks, then weapons
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Who is Confucius?
Chinese scholar who stressed the importance of social and civic responsibility
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Who is Li Bo?
Most famous poet of the Tang era?
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