Tang and Song China Comprehension Check

How do Chinese citizens live a morally upstanding life?

• Respect their elders and position in society

• Trade and profit

• Becoming the Emperor

• Fight for the Honor of the family

What is filial piety?

• A philosophy based on social harmony

• The growth of the silk road trade in China

• Sense of duty and honor shown to parents and ancesters

• Let's get down to business to defeat the huns, did they send me daughters when I asked for sons?

What is the Chinese bureaucracy?

• Filial piety

• The mandate of heaven

• Confucian educated government workers

• The Emperor

What is the mandate of heaven?

• A system of trade based on the silk road

• The religious belief system in China

• The right to change emperors

• Emperor's power is legitimized by the favor of the heavens

What did Tang Taizong do to solidify the power of the Tang Dyanasty?

• Base his government on filial piety

• Conquer territory and redistribute land equally

• Increase trade on the silk road

• Improve education in China

What is the Civil Service Exam?

• Confucian teachings to protect the family

• Test based on Confucian tradition used to create scholar bureaucracy

• Separation of Church and State in China

• Government workers

What caused the collapse of the Tang Dynasty?

• Corruption of government officials

• End of Silk Road Trade

• Rising military costs, high taxes, invasion and rebellions

• Tang ran out of male successors to throne

What did the Song Dynasty do to keep stability in China?

• Ruled Smaller territory, expanded bureaucracy and paid off nomadic tribes

• Got rid of the Civil Service Exam

• Increased requirements for bureaucracy

• Reduced trade with the outside world

Why did the Song Dynasty create a Golden Age?

• China isolated itself from the outside world

• Trade became more important, merchants grew wealthy

• China stopped using Confucian teachings

• Invasions by nomadic groups

Who conquered the Song Dynasty?

• Kublai Khan and the Mongols

• The Manchus

• Japanese

• Koreans