Transcript Advances under the Tang and Song - RUSD

Daily Opener 11/13
wk 14
1.
What is a teaching of
Confucianism?
2.
What is a teaching of
Buddhism?
Advances under
the Tang and Song
Ch 7.2 page 223
scholar-official
 an
educated
person with a
government
position
porcelain
a
hard white
ceramic
material,
often called
china
porcelain
a
hard white
ceramic
material,
often called
china
porcelain
a
hard white
ceramic
material,
often called
china
Advances under
the Tang and Song
Ch 7.2 page 223
Civil Service Exam
Scholar-Official
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Four different levels
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Each level was harder than the one before it
Tests took all day to finish
Tested knowledge of Confucianism, poetry,
government, and Chinese history
Although thousands took the test each year only
about 20-30 men passed them
Terrace Farming
Landscape Portrait
Landscape Portrait
Wood-Block Printing
porcelain
Sui Dynasty
How did this dynasty rise to power?
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General Yang Jian conquered several areas
and unified China for the first time in 400
years
Yang Jian made himself emperor and
founded Sui Dynasty
Yang Jian changed his name to Wen Di
Sui Dynasty
How did this Dynasty govern China?
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Wen Di and Yang Di were harsh rulers
forced peasants to work in army and build
public works projects
Sui Dynasty
What belief systems did this dynasty
encourage? Discourage?
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Wen Di was Buddhist
encouraged Confucianism, Daoism and
Buddhism
Sui Dynasty
How did this dynasty affect daily life
in China?
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Grand Canal promoted trade
rebuilding of the Great Wall provided security
Sui Dynasty
List two ways this dynasty helped
unite China?
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public work projects
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Grand Canal, Great Wall
extended military control
Tang Dynasty
Tang Dynasty
How did this dynasty rise to
power?
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Taizong helped his father to found the
Tang Dynasty by rebelling against the
Sui
Tang Dynasty
How did this dynasty govern China?
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Wu Zhao (only female ruler) helped to
enlarge the empire
Empress Wu Zhao
Tang Dynasty
How did this dynasty govern China?
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Wu Zhao (only female ruler) helped to
enlarge the empire
bureaucracy
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government made up of departments each with its
own area
scholar-officials used Confucian ideas to help
them serve the government
Tang Dynasty
What belief systems did this
dynasty encourage? Discourage?
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At first Confucianism, Buddhism and
Daoism were encouraged
Later Buddhism was discouraged
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Emperor Wu Zong ordered the destruction of
4,600 Buddhist monasteries
At first…
then…
destruction of Buddhist
temples
Tang Dynasty
How did this dynasty affect daily life in
China?
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scholar class became new ruling elite
land reform gave some peasants a chance to gain
wealth
golden age for poetry and art
Tang Dynasty
List two ways this dynasty helped
unite China.
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emperors directly controlled army
agricultural reforms benefited both the
government and commoners