Chinese Dynasties - Part 1

The Sui Dyansty

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

During the Tang dynasty, to become a government official

• students had to know Buddhism

• Students had to be from noble families

• students had to make inventions

• students had to pass a difficult Civil Service examination

Agricultural advances and fast ripening rice

• caused new wealth and population growth in China

• allowed Song leaders to rebuild the Great Wall

• increased civil war as people fought for farm land

• allowed Genghis Khan to capture much of central Asia

This major construction project helped unify China by improving trade between North and South China

• Great Wall of China

• Grand Canal

• Forbidden City

• Silk Road

The Golden Age of literature and art took place during

• Tang dynasty

• Sui dynasty

• Ming dynasty

• Han dynasty

During Song Dynasty population doubled. Why?

• New agricultural advances and fast ripening rice

• Gunpowder and Paper Money were developed

• Religion stopped persecution

• People moved to China

In China, why was sea trade more popular than overland trade?

• Mountains in the west blocked people from overland trade.

• People liked to take boats.

• Nomadic tribes block overland trade.

• Desert's to too hot and large to cross

Which physical features creates a natural boundary between India and China, therefore making over land trade difficult?

• Taklamakan Desert

• Yangtze River

• Himalayan Mountains

• Plateau of Tibet

An economic achievement of the Song Dynasty include

• porcelain

• fireworks

• paper money

• bikes

What were two influential advancements of Song dynasty?

• Gunpowder and movable-type printing

• Engineering and art

• Poetry and medicine

• Astronomy and cartography