Unit 3B Study Guide 1
APWH Themes: 1 = H-E Interaction; 2 = Cultural Dev & Interaction; 3 = Politics; 4 = Economic; 5 = Social
Big Question: Why didn’t Song China have an industrial revolution? Relevant Reading
Text & Secondary Sources Strayer, Ch 9 – China and the World: East Asian Connections
General History Vocabulary cosmopolitan, currency, metallurgy
People
Name Theme(s)
Place/Time
Significance (What did this person do?)
Tang Taizong
Uighurs “WEE-goors”
Zhu Xi
Vocabulary / Historical Events / Trends
Term Theme(s)
Place/Time
Definition & Significance
bushido
daimyo
Grand Canal
equal-field system
civil service system
fast-ripening rice
block-printing
gunpowder
“flying cash”
Unit 3B Study Guide 2
APWH Themes: 1 = H-E Interaction; 2 = Cultural Dev & Interaction; 3 = Politics; 4 = Economic; 5 = Social
foot binding
Neo-Confucian-ism
Nam Viet
The Tale of Genji
shogun
Kamakura & Muromachi Shogunates
samurai
seppuku or hara-kiri
Short Answer
Tang/Song China & East Asia
1. Which religions/belief systems were the most common during the Tang dynasty?
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2. How much of the Han Dynasty’s governmental techniques/structure did the Tang dynasty copy? How did the Tang dynasty attempt to avoid the problem(s) that had caused the Han Dynasty to end? How well did their attempts work, and what caused their attempt(s) to work/not work?
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3. What new class of military official emerged in Japan in the post-classical era? What were their responsibilities/functions?
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Unit 3B Study Guide 3
APWH Themes: 1 = H-E Interaction; 2 = Cultural Dev & Interaction; 3 = Politics; 4 = Economic; 5 = Social
4. What Chinese cultural characteristics were adopted by Japan, Korea, & Vietnam? (Or influenced by China?)
Japan
Korea
Vietnam
5. What differences existed in the rights granted men and women in post-classical China? How did those differences vary by social class?
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6. How did the civil service examination system in China compare to other post-classical empires’ bureaucracies?
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7. What was unique or notable about The Tale of Genji?
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8. Compare the distribution of political power during the Nara, Heian, Kamakura, and Muromachi eras in Japan.
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9. Why didn’t Song China have an Industrial Revolution? (They seemed to have all the necessary “ingredients.”)
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APWH Themes: 1 = H-E Interaction; 2 = Cultural Dev & Interaction; 3 = Politics; 4 = Economic; 5 = Social
Unit 3B Study Guide 4 4
Color & Outline the borders of the Sui, Tang, & Song Dynasties Cities Bodies of Water Kyoto (Japan) Yellow (Huang He) Chang’an E. China Sea Beijing S. China Sea Kaifeng Sea of Japan Hangzhou Grand Canal Rivers Yellow (Huang He) Yangtze