1. Warm-Up Write the Question
How long did the period of Disunion last?
What were some Sui dynasty achievements
How did the Song emperors protect their lands?
What two factors led to an increased population? Why?

2. Chinese Empires The Song and The Tang
Chapter 11
Section 1 Slides 1-11
Chinese Empires The Song and The Tang

3. Dynastic Cycle- The cycle which dynasties rise and fall.
Mandate of Heaven- The theory which gave the reason for the Dynastic Cycle. ( It’s with Heaven’s permission)

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. 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

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

8. Literature and Art Porcelain Mechanical clock Paper money
Magnetic compass for sailing
’s advances in Algebra
Math using negative numbers

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

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

13. 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

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

15. S.P.I.C.E. Summary. S-Social P-Political I-Innovations C-Cultural
Come up with a summary that S.P.I.C.E.’s Song and Tang Dynasty. Two sentences per letter.
S-Social
P-Political
I-Innovations
C-Cultural
E-Economics

16. 1. The golden ages of the Tang Dynasty in China, the Gupta Empire in India, and the city-state
of Athens in Greece were known as eras of
A) major industrial development.
B) intense nationalism.
C) economic poverty and intellectual upheaval.
D) artistic and intellectual achievement.
2 . A study of the Byzantine civilization would show that this civilization
A) preserved Greek and Roman learning and passed it on to western and eastern Europe.
B) based its economy on subsistence farming and slash-and-burn agriculture.
C) collapsed as a result of Germanic invasions of the early Middle Ages.
D) reduced the influence of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

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