1. Chapter 12
Section 1
Tang and Song China

2. Key Terms
Tang Taizong
Wu Zhao
Moveable type
gentry

3. The Tang Dynasty Expands China
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. Tang Rulers Create a Powerful Empire
Lasted 300 years
Tang Taizong
Empire expanded
Wu Zhao 690
Only female emperor
Expanded roads and canals
Promoted trade and agricultrue

5. Scholar-Officials Civil service exams Large bureaucracy
Exams open to all
Only wealthy could afford education
Talent and education more important than noble birth

6. Tang Lose Power 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 Restores China
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. An Era of Prosperity and Innovation
Tang and Song dynasties population doubles
Moveable type-printer could arrange blocks of individual characters
Gunpowder- led to bombs, grenades, rockets

9. An Era of Prosperity and Innovation
Porcelain
Mechanical clock
Paper money
Magnetic compass for sailing
’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

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 psinting

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