Unit 3B Study Guide 1

APWH Themes: 1 = H-E Interaction; 2 = Cultural Dev & Interaction; 3 = Politics; 4 = Economic; 5 = Social

Big Question: Why didn’t Song China have an industrial revolution? Relevant Reading

Text & Secondary Sources Strayer, Ch 9 – China and the World: East Asian Connections

General History Vocabulary cosmopolitan, currency, metallurgy

People

Name Theme(s)

Place/Time

Significance (What did this person do?)

Tang Taizong

Uighurs “WEE-goors”

Zhu Xi

Vocabulary / Historical Events / Trends

Term Theme(s)

Place/Time

Definition & Significance

bushido

daimyo

Grand Canal

equal-field system

civil service system

fast-ripening rice

block-printing

gunpowder

“flying cash”

Unit 3B Study Guide 2

APWH Themes: 1 = H-E Interaction; 2 = Cultural Dev & Interaction; 3 = Politics; 4 = Economic; 5 = Social

foot binding

Neo-Confucian-ism

Nam Viet

The Tale of Genji

shogun

Kamakura & Muromachi Shogunates

samurai

seppuku or hara-kiri

Short Answer

Tang/Song China & East Asia

1. Which religions/belief systems were the most common during the Tang dynasty?

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2. How much of the Han Dynasty’s governmental techniques/structure did the Tang dynasty copy? How did the Tang dynasty attempt to avoid the problem(s) that had caused the Han Dynasty to end? How well did their attempts work, and what caused their attempt(s) to work/not work?

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3. What new class of military official emerged in Japan in the post-classical era? What were their responsibilities/functions?

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Unit 3B Study Guide 3

APWH Themes: 1 = H-E Interaction; 2 = Cultural Dev & Interaction; 3 = Politics; 4 = Economic; 5 = Social

4. What Chinese cultural characteristics were adopted by Japan, Korea, & Vietnam? (Or influenced by China?)

Japan

Korea

Vietnam

5. What differences existed in the rights granted men and women in post-classical China? How did those differences vary by social class?

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6. How did the civil service examination system in China compare to other post-classical empires’ bureaucracies?

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7. What was unique or notable about The Tale of Genji?

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8. Compare the distribution of political power during the Nara, Heian, Kamakura, and Muromachi eras in Japan.

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9. Why didn’t Song China have an Industrial Revolution? (They seemed to have all the necessary “ingredients.”)

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APWH Themes: 1 = H-E Interaction; 2 = Cultural Dev & Interaction; 3 = Politics; 4 = Economic; 5 = Social

Unit 3B Study Guide 4 4

Color & Outline the borders of the Sui, Tang, & Song Dynasties Cities Bodies of Water Kyoto (Japan) Yellow (Huang He) Chang’an E. China Sea Beijing S. China Sea Kaifeng Sea of Japan Hangzhou Grand Canal Rivers Yellow (Huang He) Yangtze