Chapter 12.1 China: The Sui, Tang

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Chapter 12.1China The Sui, Tang Song Dynasties

• Bell work What do you know about the Asian
  culture
• Target Understand the accomplishments of the
  Sui, Tang Song Dynasties

• 12.1 Assignment list
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• 10 Reading Notes
• Review Qs 1-6
• Video Notes(2)
• Class Notes (4)
• Asian Map

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Chapter 12.1 Review Questions

• 1-6 page 282

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Asian Map page 278-280 (All) color scheme
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Sui Dynasty

• Reunited China in 589
• The Grand Canal connected northern and southern
  China via existing waterways and build new ones.
  Trade routes.
• Standardized currency unifying northern
  southern China.
• Sui Legal Code
• Improved the Great Wall.
• Buddhism was encouraged spread throughout the
  empire.
• Emperor Wens Equifield system reform to
  rich-poor gap through agriculture.
• Tried to conquer southern Manchuria northern
  Korea. Defeated by invading Turks.
• Tang uprising ended Sui rule in 618.

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Tang Dynasty

• 618 to 907-Golden Age of China.
• Wealthiest, most powerful and most sophisticated
  in the world.
• Discouraged regionalism.
• established through the military, silk routes
  which then contributed to the influx of traders
  and the internalization of the Chinese society.
• Emperor Xuanzong (685 761) flourishing of the
  arts, music, dance, as well as religious
  diversity.
• Womens Rights developed marriage the Family
• Tang Poets Li Po (Daoist) Romanticism -Do Fu
  (Confucius)Realist
• Super efficient system of government Revised Sui
  Legal code, which were personnel administration,
  military, finance, justice, and public works.
• Medicine for Diabetes, Alchemist create
  Gunpowder, natural gas cylinders, Air conditioned
  palaces, Alchemist created porcelain.

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Song Dynasty

• 960-1279 Neo Confucianism
• Advanced ship building harbors to fuel naval
  trade in international seaports to boost economy.
• Created Chinas first stable armada in the year
  1132, with Dinghai as headquarter.
• Large number of schools and places of worship.
• Expanded Empire postal service.
• Women were given some legal rights and the
  ability to own land businesses.
• Population doubled due to the early-ripening
  rice.
• Augmented the use of gunpowder into battle.
• Hydraulic Engineering use of locks.
• Sumptuary laws that regulated clothing and food
  consumption based status and social class.
• Use of copper coins first paper-currency.
• advancements in all fields of study, including
  biology, botany, zoology, geology, mineralogy,
  mechanics, horology, astronomy, pharmaceutical
  medicine, archeology, mathematics, cartography

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Extension

• Create a twelve point timeline of the Chinese
  Dynasties studied in chapter 12. Make sure you
  have four events for the Sui, Tang Song
  Dynasties with a pictures, date description for
  each event. It can be inventions, political,
  cultural or social events. Make a creative title
  and organization.