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During the Tang and Song dynasties, who ran the Chinese administration?
scholar-gentry
100
True or False The invention of gunpowder had very little impact on warfare
True
100
What caused the growth in Buddhism in China after 300 CE?
disorder following the collapse of the Han dynasty, which discredited Confucianism
100
What two dynasties were known as the Golden Age of Chinese culture?
Tand and Song
100
What was the most important Christian kingdom in Africa?
Ethiopia
200
What group did China occasionally have to recognize as a political equal?
northern nomads
200
How did the Tang and Song monarchs lessen the influence of the aristocrats and better the position of peasants?
large estates were broken up and land was given to peasants
200
What was the result of Buddhist financial successes in China during the Tang era?
It led to persecution and seizures of Buddhist monastic lands
200
What major demographic change in China occurred between 500 and 1000 C.E.?
large population increase in the south around the Yangtze
200
A family that passed the imperial title from generation to generation refers to what system of transferring power?
dynasties
300
Which dynasty reunified China in the late 6th century, solidifying that unity by greatly extending the country's canals?
Sui
300
What three innovations facilitated Chinese overseas trade?
compass, lateen sail, and the junk
300
What was the key link for the conduit of Chinese culture to Japan and Korea?
Buddhism
300
What caused the expansion of Chinese literacy?
invention of moveable-type print and cheap paper
300
What region of Africa was first converted to Islam by 700 CE?
North Africa
400
Which dynasty was the first to bring some political unity to the Korean peninsula?
Silla
400
How were Tang rulers able to control potential nomadic threats to China?
intermarriage between the nomadic and Chinese ruling families
400
What did footbinding and the harem and veil in Islam symbolize?
The subordination of women to men
400
What development contributed to the doubling of the Chinese population during the Tang and Song dynasties?
The adoption of fast-ripening rice from Vietnam
400
How did the prophet Muhammad have knowledge of life beyond Mecca?
He was a merchant and a traveller
500
Where did the governmental power rest in the 11th century?
shoguns / military governers
500
How did the Tang and Song dynasties affect the social position of women?
Their position increased with the Tang, but their rights decreased under the Song
500
What were the three major factors that led to the decline of Buddhism in China?
1. Buddhist temples were not taxed 2. Buddhism's foreign or "barbaric" origin 3. The practice of celibacy undermined the Confucian-based family system
500
What group in Heian Japan contributed the most to literature?
women
500
What did the Meccans initially reject Muhammad's message?
It threatened to replace the gods of the Kaaba and disrupt pilgrimages and commerce
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