China

Question 1

What ideology was there in the Qin Dynasty?

Answer 1

Legalist

Question 2

What did the Qin Shi Huangdi force noble people to do?

Answer 2

Live in the capital, under his gaze

Question 3

What did Shi Huangdi do with the land from the noble families?

Answer 3

Made China into 36 districts, officials controlling each one

Question 4

What did Shi Huangdi and Li Si do?

Answer 4

Killed confucian scholars and burned their books to prevent uprising

Question 4

What did Shi Huangdi and Li Si do?

Answer 4

Killed confucian scholars and burned their books to prevent uprising

Question 5

What did Shi Huangdi network build?

Answer 5

Vast Highway Network

Question 6

What did Shi Huangdi’s highway network accomplish

Answer 6

trade increasing

Question 7

What did Shi Huangdi standardize

Answer 7

writing, law, currency, weights, measures

Question 8

Was the Qin dynasty under Shi Huangdi popular and why?

Answer 8

No, due to the harsh taxes and repressive government it was unpopular.

Question 9

What led to an increase in farm production for Shi Huangdi

Answer 9

Irrigation projects

Question 10

What did Shi Huangdi stop?

Answer 10

Internal battles

Question 11

What did Shi Huangdi’s army attack?

Answer 11

Invaders North of Huang He, South of current Vietnam

Question 12

What did the Zhou dynasty do prior to the Qin?

Answer 12

Built small walls to discourage northern nomads from invading

Question 13

What did Shi Huangdi do to the structures previously made by the Zhou

Answer 13

Connected the walls, forming the Great Wall

Question 14

What types of workers worked on the great wall

Answer 14

forced laborers, many died

Question 15

What was in Shi Huangdi’s tomb?

Answer 15

terracotta warriors

Question 16

What was after math of QinShi Huangdi dying?

Answer 16

Downfall of Qin dynasty. Son was rebelled against by peasants, with one of their leaders being Han, creating the next dynsaty.

Question 17

what is the huang he

Answer 17

YELLLOW RIVEr

Question 18

During which dynasty was the grand canal built

Answer 18

the SUI dynasty

Question 19

what did the grand canal help

Answer 19

trade, flowing from huang he to chang jiang

Question 20

Why did the people not like the sui dynasty

Answer 20

overworked + overtaxed

Question 21

which dynasty built a strong foundation for the tang?

Answer 21

sui

Question 22

which dynasty began the civil service exam?

Answer 22

Han dynasty

Question 23

first emperor of tang dynasty

Answer 23

tang taizong

Question 24

what did the Tang reconqeur

Answer 24

Northern and western lasnds that were lost during han

Question 25

what did Tang expand and what did it help

Answer 25

network of roads and canals, which helped to pull empire together

Question 26

what did the Tang extent their influence to

Answer 26

korea, led by empress wu

Question 27

what form of government did the qin have

Answer 27

autocracy

Question 28

what did tang promote

Answer 28

foreign trade and agricultural improvemnets

Question 29

what did the Tang reinstate and expand

Answer 29

the han's civil service exam in order to restore BUREAUCRACy

Question 30

what became more important after implementing the exam system during the Tang

Answer 30

EDUCATION, as before, it mattered more if you were noble class

Question 31

What happended to those that passed the civil service exam?

Answer 31

became elit group of scholars

Question 32

What did the civil service exam do

Answer 32

create an intelligent governing class

Question 33

what did moderately wealthy families during tang do .

Answer 33

shared in chinas government

Question 34

what did the tang impose

Answer 34

harsh taxes to meet rising government costs

Question 35

what did the tang's taxes fail to cover

Answer 35

cost of military and new buildings

Question 36

what did the tang struggle to do

Answer 36

control the vast empire they'd created

Question 37

what was the battle of talas

Answer 37

muslim armies defeated chinese, resulting in central asia falling into foreign rule (not china)

Question 38

what happened in the tang dynasty after the battle of talas

Answer 38

border attacks and rebellions, ending with rebels brning tang capital and murdered tang emperor (kid)

Question 39

what happened after fall of tang

Answer 39

rival warlords divided china into seperate kingdoms

Question 40

who reunited china after fall of tang dynasty

Answer 40

Taizu

Question 41

first song emperor?

Answer 41

Taizu

Question 42

did the song armies regain western or northern lands lost previously

Answer 42

no

Question 43

how did song try to gain peace

Answer 43

by paying tributes of silver, silk and tea to northern enemies

Question 44

did the attempt of song to gain peace work

Answer 44

no. the Jurchen conquerd northern china (jin empire), forcing the song to retreat south across the huang he

Question 45

what became the economic heartland of china during the song dynasty

Answer 45

the south, growing rich with trade

Question 46

what was the population like during the tang and song dynasties

Answer 46

population =2x

Question 47

what technological advancements were made during the tang and song eras

Answer 47

movable type and gunpowder clock, paper money, magnetic compass made advancements in math

Question 48

what happened to rice during the song dynasty

Answer 48

new variety of fast ripening rice