Song, Tang, and Sui Dynasties

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• caused new wealth in China

• allowed Song leaders to rebuild the Great Wall

• allowed the Mongols to invade

• hurt the economy

A series of rulers all from the same family is referred to as 

• a kingdom
• an empire
• a dynasty
• the king's list

Who did the Tang overthrow?

• The Song

• The Han

• The Sui

• The Zhou

What was the natural border of China that was a desert?

• Sahara
• Gobi
• Death Valley
• Antarctica

This was used to make the earliest printed book.

• Rudder
• Movable type printing
• Woodblock printing
• Coal

What is civil service?

• The flow of nature
• Working on the wall
• Working for church
• Working for government

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 

What were the two most influential advancements of the Sui, Tang, and Song dynasties?

• Gunpowder and movable-type printing
• Engineering and art
• Poetry and medicine
• Astronomy and cartography

What instrument revolutionized sailing?

• Peridot
• Radar
• Magnetic Compass
• Chinese flute

The Chinese invented all of the following except:

• Porcelain
• Paper
• Silk
• Number zero