SS Topic 5 study guide

Tang and Song China

What is a bureaucracy?

Be able to explain the importance of scholar-officials

Be able to explain the merit system

What is urbanization?

What is a money economy?

What advances in farming took place during the Tang and Song?

Why did trade and industry expand during this time?

The Tang dynasty was the greatest era of what art form?

How did the rulers of China’s Song dynasty sometimes try to keep peace with neighboring enemies?

What led to the fall of the Tang?

The Mongol Empire

Who was Genghis Khan?

How did the Mongols grow such a huge empire?

What was the name of the Mongol dynasty in China?

Be able to explain the social hierarchy in Yuan China

What important thing did the Mongols do for trade in China?

The Ming Dynasty

What did Hongwu do during his reign?

How did the tributary system work?

What happened in China AFTER Yongle’s death?

Who was Zheng He?

Chinese Society

Be able to explain Daoism

Be able to explain Buddhism

Who founded Buddhism?

How did Buddhism decline?

Be able to explain Confucianism

How did Chinese inventions reach Europe?

Emergence of Japan

Be able to explain Japan’s climate and geography

How did Prince Shotoku attempt to unify Japan under his leadership?

What is a kami?

What did Japan borrow from other cultures?

What is a shogun?

Be able to explain feudalism in Japan

Who were the daimyo?

Who were the samurai?

What is the code of Bushido?

Be able to explain how Mongols threatened Japan

Be able to explain the battles between the Samurai and Mongols invaders

Japanese Culture and Society

How did life change for women when Confucianism was introduced?

Be able to explain the Shinto religion

What is a Kami?

Who wrote the Tale of Genji?

What is Kabuki and who in Japan would likely attend a Kabuki performance?

Korea

Explain how the Silla Empire turned Korea into one of the most advanced civilizations of the world at that time.

What is celadon?