Transcript Tang and Song China

Chapter 12
Section 1
Key Terms
Tang Taizong
 Wu Zhao
 Moveable type
 gentry
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The Tang Dynasty Expands China
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Wendi first emperor
of Sui Dynasty
Grand canal
connected Huang
He and Chiang Jang
Rivers
1 million people, five
years, 1000 miles
Thousands more
built the Great Wall
Tang Rulers Create a Powerful
Empire
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Lasted 300 years
Tang Taizong 626649
Empire expanded
Wu Zhao 690
Only female
emperor
Expanded roads
and canals
Promoted trade and
agricultrue
Scholar-Officials
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Civil service exams
Large bureaucracy
Exams open to all
Only wealthy could
afford education
Talent and education
more important than
noble birth
Tang Lose Power
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Imposed heavy
taxes
751 Muslim armies
defeated Chinese
Central Asia in
foreign hands
907 rebels burn
Tang capitol
Murder Tang
emperor a child
Song Dynasty Restores China
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960 Taizu unites
China
Song- first emperor
Song emperors tried
to buy peace
1100’s Manchurians
conquer China
Song capitolHangzhou
South China
economic heartland
An Era of Prosperity and
Innovation
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Tang and Song
dynasties population
doubles
Moveable typeprinter could arrange
blocks of individual
characters
Gunpowder- led to
bombs, grenades,
rockets
An Era of Prosperity and
Innovation
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Porcelain
Mechanical clock
Paper money
Magnetic compass
for sailing
1000-1200’s
advances in Algebra
Math using negative
numbers
Agriculture
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Cultivation of rice
Two crops a year
Officials distribute
the Viet Nam rice
Produce more food
Population grows
Trade and Foreign Contracts
Tang and Song
foreign trade
flourished
 China increased sea
trade
 Sailed to India, Persia,
Africa
 Culture spread to East
Asia
 Buddhism spread to
Viet Nam, Korea,
Japan
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A Golden Age of Poetry and Art
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Tang period- great
poetry
Li Bo- wrote about
life’s pleasures
Praised Confucian
order
Song dynastyChinese psinting
Changes in Chinese Society
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Old aristocratic
families disappear
Gentry-upper class
 Attained status
through education
 Civil service positions
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Urban middle class
 Merchants
 Artisans
 Minor officials
Changes in Chinese Society
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Bottom of social
order
 Soldiers
 Laborers
 Servants
 Countryside was the
largest class the
peasants
 Toiled for wealthy
landowners
Status of Women
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Subservient to men
Further declined
under Tang and
Song
Women less
important to
prosperity
Peasant women
worked in the fields
Binding feet of
upper class
Status of Women
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Lily foot- broken
arch
Crippled for life
Reflected wealth
and prestige of the
husband
Could afford
impractical wife