Tang and Song Dynasty

The Tang and Song is known as the 

• end of Chinese Civilization
• Dynastic Cycle
• Golden Age of China
• a and c

Scholar officials

• ran China
• had to pass a difficult exam
• practiced Buddhism
• a and b

This was the Golden Age because

• they were so rich from gold
• Tang poets like Li Bai
• rise of cities
• b and c

To become a scholar official

• students had to know Buddhism
• Students had to be from noble families
• students had to make inventions
• students had to pass a difficult Confucian test 

Empress Wu

• was a vicious intelligent leader
• the wife of an emperor
• the only female empress to reign over China
• a , b, and c

The Tang government 

• rebuilt the Great Wall
• gave land to peasants
• made a code of law
• b and c

The Song Dynasty

• invented guns
• invented paper
• made a New Grand Canal
• developed a fast ripening rice

Fast ripening rice

• caused new wealth in China
• allowed Song leaders to rebuild the Great Wall
• increased the population greatly
• a and c

A golden age is

• rise of cities
• when a society conquers others
• an age of invention
• when a civilization is at its highest in culture

The Sui Dyansty

• started the Grand Canal
• invented gunpowder
• invented silk
• was the Golden Age of China