Ap World History Unit 1 Hemiler Review

How did Song Dynasty maintain and justify their rule?

I. Confucianism

• hierarchical

• prescribed and proper order to everything.

  II. Neo-Confucianism

• sought to get rid of Confucianism, the influence of Buddhism.

What is the main idea of the Song Dynasty?

it carried over revival of Confucianism from the Tang Dynasty which came right before the Song.

What are the three main things women went through in Song China.

Women are in a subordinate position…
I. Stripped of legal rights

• Women’s property became their husbands.

• Widow cannot remarry

• II. Endured social restructions

• had limited education.

• made to endure practice of foot binding that represents status of elite
  

  III. Imperial Bureaucracy

• Bureaucracy: important decisions made by state officials rather than elected representatives.

  • To enter the bureaucracy, men had to take a civil service examination based on Confucian classics.

    • Bureaucratic jobs were placed in basis of merit.

Song China neighboring regions…

Vietnam,Korea, and Japan

What did Korea do with whats going on in Song China?

• took a similar service examination.

• adapted Buddhism.

Buddhism spread where….

originated in India and then China

Center of Four Noble Truths

• Life is suffering.

• We suffer because we crave.

• We cease suffering when we cease craving.

• The Eightfold Path leads to suffering and craving.

Buddhism is what….

• Cycle of birth, death, and reincarnation.

• State Buddies called Nirvana.

what are the two main types of buddhism..

I. Theravada Buddhism

• Sri Lanka

• only to monks and monasteries

II. Mahayana Buddhism

• East Asia

• encourage Buddhist practices

  • Buddhist teachings are available to all

  • Emphasizing compassion

  • made the Buddha into an object of devotion.

Economy in Song China

I. Commercialization of the Economy

• Manufacturers and artisans began to produce more goods than they consumed. The significant goods they produced are porcelain and silk.

  - Sold excess goods in markets in China and across Eurasia.

II. Agricultural Innovation

• Champa rice was introduced from the Champa kingdom, Vietnam.

  • matures early, resists drought, and can be harvested twice a year.

III. Transportation Innovations

• expansion of the Grand Canal.

  - Facilitated trade and communication among China’s various regions.

What is Dar-Al-Islam?

refers to house of Islam

The Muslim faith practices two major religions, which are….

I. Judaism

• the ethnic religion of the Jews

  II. Christianity

• Established by the Jewish prophet Jesus Christ.

III.Islam
- founded by the prophet Muhammed.

• EACH OF THESE RELIGIONS IS MONOTHEISTIC, WHICH MEANS THEY ONLY BELIEVE IN ONE GOD.

What is the Abbasid Caliphate?

• The center of power is located at Baghdad. It was ethically Arab.

The Arabs were dominated who…

Arab people, but not Turkic people.

Seljuk Empire

• Central Asia by Turkic pastoralists.

• needs projects of territorial expansion.

During the period 1200-1450….

The dominance of Arab Muslim empires faded while Turkic Muslim empires rose to replace them.

Turkic empires: Continuity

I. The Military administered their states.

II. Established sharia law.

• legal code based on the Quran.

Some Technological things based

• Nasir al-din-al-tusi made significant advances in mathematics and even invented trigonometry.

• Muslim scholars prevsered works of Greek moral and natural Philosophy from people liek Plato and Aristole by tranlating them to Aravuc making commentaries upon them.

  • Arab scholars did a lot of this work called the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.

KEY INFO:

Dar al-islam along wth Song China represented the center of teh world. Scholarship and