1. 7-2 advances under the tang and song
Essential Question: Examine how tea, printing, paper, gunpowder and the compass influenced China.

2. Imperial state Tang rulers developed an imperial state
Imperial: related to the empire
Tang rulers developed an imperial state
Used Sui ideas to develop a well run government
Used Sui tax system
Used the Sui capital as their capital

3. Chinese government
Emperor
Chief advisors
Bureaucracy
Local government

4. Chinese Government
Bureaucracy: government that is divided into departments
New law code: listed all the laws of China
State exam based on Confucian teachings, extremely difficult, most failed
Scholar office: government official that passed the exam
Song Dynasty set up more schools and changed the test so more people could pass
Most scholar officials came from the upper calss

5. Prosperity and farming
Under the Tang and the Song China becomes the wealthiest nation
Improved Trade
New roads and water ways tie the empire together
Tea, and grain
Improved communication
Messengers used the new roads to travel
Technological developments
Ships powered by oars and sail
Magnetic compass

6. Agriculture=farming New rice Harvested faster Stepped rice fields
Food supply expanded
Population grew
Stepped rice fields
Used pumps and canals for irrigation
Allowed for more farmland in mountainous areas

8. Commerce= money Tang and Song are first government to print money
Growth in trade increased the use of money
Chinese coins very heavy and hard to carry
Tang and Song are first government to print money

9. Golden age Poetry Artists Li Bai : wrote about life’s pleasures
Du Fu: praised orderliness and Confucian ideas
Wang Wei: wrote of beauty of nature and the briefness of lifr
Artists
Pottery figurines
Landscape paintings
Used only black and whit and all shades of grey

10. Technological progress
Manufactured paper
Used to support learning and spread traditions
Invented woodblock printing
Carved entire block to print page worth of characters
Invented moveable type
Carved blocks for individual characters
Made the first printed books

12. Historical influences
Paper making: used for education
Gunpowder: changed the way wars were fought, fireworks
Magnetic compass: used for exploration
Porcelain: china, one of china’s most valuable exports