1. Chapter 11 Section 1

2. Key Terms  Wendi  Tang Taizong  Wu Zhao  Scholar Officials  Porcelain  Pagoda  Woodblock Printing  Moveable type  Gentry

3. The Sui Dynasty  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

4. The Tang Dynasty  Lasted 300 years  Tang Taizong 626- 649  Empire expanded  Wu Zhao 690  Only female emperor  Expanded roads and canals  Promoted trade and agricultrue

5. The Tang Dynasty  Civil service exams  Large bureaucracy  Exams open to all  Only wealthy could afford education  Talent and education more important than noble birth

6. The Tang Decline  Imposed heavy taxes  751 Muslim armies defeated Chinese  Central Asia in foreign hands  907 rebels burn Tang capitol  Murder Tang emperor a child

7. Song Dynasty  960 Taizu unites China  Song- first emperor  Song emperors tried to buy peace  1100’s Manchurians conquer China  Song capitol- Hangzhou  South China economic heartland

8. Inventions and Innovations  Tang and Song dynasties population doubles  Moveable type- printer could arrange blocks of individual characters  Gunpowder- led to bombs, grenades, rockets

9. Literature and Art  Porcelain  Mechanical clock  Paper money  Magnetic compass for sailing  1000-1200’s advances in Algebra  Math using negative numbers

10. Agriculture  Cultivation of rice  Two crops a year  Officials distribute the Viet Nam rice  Produce more food  Population grows  Song Dynasty farmers fed 100 million people

11. 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

12. A Golden Age of Poetry and Art  Tang period- great poetry  Li Bo- wrote about life’s pleasures  Praised Confucian order  Song dynasty- Chinese painting

13. Changes in Chinese Society  Old aristocratic families disappear  Gentry-upper class Attained status through education Civil service positions  Urban middle class Merchants Artisans Minor officials

14. Changes in Chinese Society  Bottom of social order Soldiers Laborers Servants Countryside was the largest class the peasants Toiled for wealthy landowners

15. Status of Women  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

16. Status of Women  Lily foot- broken arch  Crippled for life  Reflected wealth and prestige of the husband  Could afford impractical wife