Tang Song Dynasties

What is true about both the Song and the Tang dynasties?

• both collapsed after Mongol invasions

• both had to fend of invasions from Japan

• both were among the shortest of all China's dynasties

• both ruled for around 300 years

What is generally true about the status of women in the Tang and Song dynasties?

• it went down in both peasant and upper classes

• it went up in all social levels

• it went down in upper class, but stayed basically the same in the peasant and lower classes

• it went up in peasant class, but stayed the same in the upper class

The rise, fall, and end of both the Tang and the Song serve as examples of

• the uselessness of government

• the emperor's will

• the power of rebellion

• the dynastic cycle

Which list reflects the chronological order of dynasties?

• Tang, Song, Sui

• Song, Tang, Sui

• Sui, Tang, Song

• Sui, Song, Tang

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

• kingdom

• empire

• dynasty

• the king's list

At the end of the Tang Dynasty

• the last emperor was a child

• the dynasty had been weakened by Muslim invasion

• the dynasty was in a state of rebellion

• all of the above

One explanation for the relatively small Song Dynasty was

• the stupidity of Song rulers who had no business leading an empire

• the Manchurian invasion and threat to the north

• the natural barrier of the Gobi desert

• the beginnings of a new Ice Age that made it difficult to farm

Which innovation sparked from the Song Dynasty?

• the printing press

• moveable type printing

• books

• copy machines

Which agricultural advancement helped Song growth?

• expanded irrigation systems along the Mekong

• the development of the tractor

• the importation of new quick-ripening rice from Vietnam

• increased cattle herding

Due to trade throughout Asia, which religion spread widely outside of China?

• Buddhism

• Confucianism

• Christianity

• Islam