Deck 10: The Flowering of Traditional China

Question 1

What explains the growing tensions between Buddhism and the state during the later Tang period?

Answer 1

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Question 2

"The Yuan dynasty was a brief irrelevance in China's long history." Discuss critically.

Answer 2

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Question 3

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance.
Yang Jian/Sui Wendi

Answer 3

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Question 4

What did the Neo-Confucians teach? What purpose did they believe their philosophy served?

Question 5

How did Daoism influence Chinese art?

Question 6

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance.
Sui Dynasty

Question 7

Describe the status of women in traditional China. What opportunities did women have to exert influence and control over their own lives?

Question 8

What were the key features of the examination system? What purposes did the system serve?

Question 9

Why were the voyages of Zheng He initiated and why did they come to an end?

Question 10

What was the Silk Road and what role did it play in the Chinese economy?

Question 11

What was life like in a typical Chinese village? Provide examples.

Question 12

What long-term contributions did the Sui Dynasty make to the Chinese state? Be specific.

Question 13

What challenges did the Mongols face in their efforts to rule China? How did they respond to these challenges?

Question 14

What factors contributed to the fall of the Tang Dynasty? Provide examples.

Question 15

What were the key factors in the growth and development of the Chinese economy during the long period between the Sui and the Song?

Question 16

What were the most important differences between the Chinese nobility and the gentry that replaced them as the most influential force in Chinese society?

Question 17

How did technological innovations shape the development of Chinese literature?

Question 18

How would you explain the stunning military success of the Mongols?

Question 19

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Liu Bang

Question 20

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Gobi Desert

Question 21

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Grand Canal

Question 22

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Jurchen

Question 23

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Wang Anshi

Question 24

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Tang Dynasty

Question 25

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Li Yuan

Question 26

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civil service examination

Question 27

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scholar-gentry

Question 28

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Uighurs

Question 29

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Tang Taizong

Question 30

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Xuan Zang

Question 31

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State Confucianism

Question 32

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the Southern Song and Hangzhou

Question 33

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Song Dynasty

Question 34

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Sui Yangdi

Question 35

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Song Taizu

Question 36

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blast furnace

Question 37

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Grand Council

Question 38

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Kaifeng

Question 39

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Equal Field System

Question 40

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Chang'an

Question 41

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Karakorum

Question 42

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White Lotus sect

Question 43

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Pure Land sect

Question 44

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Neo-Confucianism/the "investigation of things" and Zhu Xi

Question 45

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Wu Zhao/Empress Wu

Question 46

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Marco Polo

Question 47

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Chan

Question 48

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The Great Wall

Question 49

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the Silk Road(s) and Bactrian camels

Question 50

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Zhu Yuanzhang

Question 51

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Temuchin/Genghis Khan

Question 52

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dowry

Question 53

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foot binding

Question 54

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compass and the sternpost rudder

Question 55

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Khanbaliq/Beijing

Question 56

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Zhenghe

Question 57

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"younger brothers" and the tribute system

Question 58

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Ming Dynasty

Question 59

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Khubilai Khan

Question 60

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the Mongols and the Yuan Dynasty

Question 61

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Li Bo and Du Fu

Question 62

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khanates

Question 63

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landscape painting and Daoism

Question 64

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School of the Mind and Zhu Xi

Question 65

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pax Mongolica

Question 66

The Sui Dynasty

A) lasted from the ninth until the eleventh centuries.
B) designated Daoism as the only official state ideology.
C) completed the new Grand Canal system linking the Yellow the Yangtze river valleys.
D) burned the literary works of Confucius and all non-Buddhists.
E) moved the capital to Canton.

Question 67

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woodblock printing

Question 68

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Karakorum

Question 69

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Supreme Ultimate

Question 70

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Tantrism

Question 71

The name given to the Asian region northwest of traditional China that was pacified by the Tang was

A) Xinjiang.
B) Korea.
C) Japan.
D) Silla.
E) Bactria.

Question 72

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance.
"savior Buddha"

Question 73

The Sui emperor was a(n) ____ ruler.

A) indifferent
B) benevolent
C) tyrannical
D) timid
E) popular

Question 74

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Dunhuang caves

Question 75

As a result of early Tang rule,

A) Chinese cultural development was stifled.
B) Buddhist influence helped to produce a blossoming of Chinese culture.
C) Buddhist monastic activities were curtailed.
D) internal weakness became endemic throughout China.
E) Nestorian beliefs became dominant in the Yangtze Valley.

Question 76

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Tale of the Marshes

Question 77

When Marco Polo visited China the country was under the control of the

A) Han dynasty
B) Ming dynasty
C) Mongols
D) Japanese
E) Song dynasty

Question 78

Over the course of the three centuries after the fall of the Han and before the rise of the Sui Dynasty,

A) China experienced a period of tranquility and order.
B) Confucianism grew in popularity.
C) Buddhism developed a much wider following among the Chinese people.
D) Daoism disappeared in China.
E) Islam made its first appearance in China.

Question 79

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Question 80

Under the Tang, ____ accepted tribute status.

A) India
B) Japan
C) Korea
D) Nepal
E) Indonesia