AP World Semester 1 Final Study Guide

The Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang was famous for

• traveling to Constantinople as an envoy of the Sui emperors

• his conversion to Nestorian Christianity

• traveling to India to collect Buddhist texts

• starting a new sect of Buddhism called Chan

The Sui dynasty was founded in 589 by

• Yang Jian

• Qin Shihuangdi

• Tang Taizong

• Song Taizu

The greatest contribution of Sui Yangdi, the second Sui emperor, was

• A series of reforms that allowed the Sui to survive for another three hundred years

• The construction of the grand canal

• His conversion to Buddhism

• His conquest of Vietnam

The success of the Tang Dynasty was due to its energetic second ruler. Who was he?

• Yang Jian

• Song Taizu

• Qin Shihuangdi

• Tang Taizong

The Tang plan to avoid the concentration of land in the hands of the wealthy was called the

• Hangzhou system

• Tang Taizong system

• Kowtow system

• Equal field system

During the Tang Dynasty, the imperial civil service examinations

• Declined dramatically in importance

• Were expanded, allowing posts to be filled with officials of genuine intellectual ability

• Were halted and not restarted until the Ming dynasty

• Were restricted to the wealthier families

During the Tang Dynasty

• Powerful neighbors kept the Chinese from expanding

• Most of far western China fell to barbarian tribes

• Japan was brought under complete Chinese control

• Chinese armies pushed into Korea, Manchuria, Tibet, and northern Vietnam

The kowtow

• Was the south pointing needle

• Was the most popular school of Buddhism in China

• Was a ritual prostration

• Was the word that neo-Confucian scholars used when discussing physical matter

The founder of the Song Dynasty was

• Song Wudi

• Huang Chao

• Song Taizu

• Tang Taizung

The Song Dynasty was substantially weakened by Song Taizu’s decision to

• Invade India

• Allow scholar bureaucrats to lead the army

• Dismantle the Chinese bureaucracy

• Give his generals almost unlimited authority