Tang and Song Dynasties

The Tang and Song is known as the

• end of Chinese Civilization

• Dynastic Cycle

• Golden Age of China

• Warring States Period

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

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

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

Under the emperors of the Tang dynasty, China

• shrank in size but was politically stable.
• was divided into warring territories.
• closed its borders to foreign trade.
• united and expanded greatly in size.

This was used to make the earliest printed book.

• Rudder
• Movable type printing
• Woodblock printing
• Coal

How did foot-binding affect women?

• Could not leave the home
• Allowed them to farm more
• Made them more beautiful to lower class men
• Created a new social class

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

Why was there more social mobility in this era?

• The civil service exam
• Better farming
• More abilities to move
• The creation of the Grand Canal

Which of the following was not an accoplishment during the Song Dynasty?

• Movable Type/block printing

• Gunpowder

• paper currency

• printing press