Tang and Song China

The Tang and Song is known as the 

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

The Sui Dyansty

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

Trade from China to Europe  

• made China poor
• Silk Road
• passed along the Grand Canal
• came across the East China Sea

What symbolized the status of women in the Song dynasty?

• Foot-binding
• Empress Wu
• The civil service exam
• The return of Confucianism

What is civil service?

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

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

Which is considered the greatest accomplishment of the Sui Dynasty?

• the building of the Grand Canal that connected northern cities to the agriculture regions in the south
• the building of the Great Wall of China, which protected China's border from invaders
• the creation of Rice Paddy agriculture which led to a surplus of food

Which of the following best describes Wu Zhao of the Tang Dynasty?

• The Chinese emperor who defeated the Mongols and started the TAng Dynasty
• the woman who assassinated the last Sui emperor and thus began the TAng Dynasty
• the General who expanded the Tang Dynasty into Western China and Korea
• An Empress, she was the only woman to have openly ruled China

Which of the following is one way Chinese society changed during the Tang and Song periods?

• increase of the population moving to the cities

• more people retreated to rural China

• less young people attempted to take civil service examinations

• people took less of an interest in the arts and technology

To become a scholar-official ___________.

• students had to work on farms

• students had to know Buddhism

• students had to make an invention

• students had to pass a difficult test