Tang Dynasty
What is kowtow?
A requirement in which anyone greeting the Chinese Emperor must bow their head until it reached the floor.
Answer: 182
What was an effect of the collapse of the Han Dynasty?
China fell into a state of anarchy, people suffered from reduced trade and political turmoil.
Answer: 180
Nuclear families.
Answer: 194
What was a goal of the Taika Reforms?
Increase efficiency.
Answer: 191
The Korean civil service exam open to peasants?
True or False?
False.
Answer: 194
What is a tributary system?
An arrangement in which other states had to pay money or provide goods to honor the Chinese Emperor.
Answer: 181-182
How did Emperor Sui Yangdi unify China?
Through violence and repression.
Answer: 180
What is polygyny?
Practice of having more than one spouse at the same time.
Answer: 194
Which city did the Fujiwara clan move the capital to?
Nara
Answer: 192Koreans based their government on the style of the _________?
Chinese
Answer: 193
What did candidates for the bureaucracy have to do in the Tang Dynasty?
They had to pass as extremely rigorous civil service exam.
Answer: 182
What was the idea behind the Grand Canal?
To provide a means of transporting rice and other crops from the Yangtze River valley to northern China and the center of the government of Luoyang.
Answer: 180
When did the Vietnamese win a major victory?
938
Answer: 195
In 710 which clan took control of the government?
The Fujiwara clan.
Answer: 192
Koreans adopted Confucian and _______ beliefs.
Buddhist
Answer: 193
What was an effect of the civil service exam in the Tang Dynasty?
Since the exam was extremely hard, education became more important. This fostered economic growth for many centuries.
Answer: 182
What would the Long Wall later become a part of?
The Great Wall of China.
Answer: 181
Vietnamese schools educated their students in ________.
Chinese
Answer: 194
Who is the main character in the Tail of Genji?
Prince Genji.
Answer: 192
Was the aristocracy more powerful in Korea or in China?
Korea
Answer: 194
What years did Emperor Tang Taizong rule?
627 - 649
Answer: 182
How long did the Sui Dynasty last?
40 years.
Answer: 181
In exchange for Chinese silk, the Vietnamese exported:
tortoise shells, ivory, peacock feathers, and pearls.
Answer: 194
What was a shogun?
Military ruler.
Answer: 192
What was the effect of not opening the civil service exam to peasants?
Their was no truly merit based system.
Answer: 194