AP World History Unit 1 Review

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The Song Dynasty

The empire that replaced the tang dynasty in 960

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What was China’s typical system of government?

Dynastic rule with a burcreacy

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What Chinese Dynasty introduced the civil service exam?

The song dynasty

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What was a major expansion of the Song Dynasty (educational, physical, geographical, technological)?

The civil service exam, allowed for a stronger bureaucracy, increased educational opportunities allowing for a greater upward mobility in government, and gunpowder

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What was a major new food grown, and what did it lead to?

Champa rice, a fast growing, high calorie, and drought resistant crop emerged. This allowed for a greater crop yield and fed the population. The more people being fed= the more people.

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What natural element found in the ground assisted chinas manfucatural developments?

Coal, allowed for production of cast iron goods, enabled them to have stronger structures.

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What technology allowed for greater navigation and exploration and how?

The compass,

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What is a meritocracy?

A system of government/ bureaucracy where higher positions are given to the people who perform the best on an exam

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Grand Canal

Facilitated trade, allowed for greater export of resources

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Gunpowder

Revelutionalized warfare, used for guns, cannon, etc

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Irrigation Systems

enabled growth of agriculture, more food = more people establishing chinese as powerful

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Tribute System in China

When a smaller state gives a larger state resources in exchange for protection

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What was the social structure in china?

Hierarchal and men dominated, had the emperor atom, scholars and bureacracy peoples below, then peasants and merchants

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