Unit 1.1 AP World History, Question
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Song Dynasty (960-1279) - ✔✔-Ruled a smaller region than the Tang, due to invaders from Manchuria
captured the northern part, and set up their own empire. Yet, China still flourished under the Song
Imperial Bureaucracy (continuity 221 BCE) - ✔✔-A huge organization in which chosen officials
(bureaucrats) carry out the empire's rules. Expanded the number of bureaucratic positions grew.
Civil Service Exams - ✔✔-Confucian test given to qualify a person (based on merit), and allow for him to
obtain a job in the Chinese government.
Meritocracy - ✔✔-Officials gained their position by showing their merit on Civil Service Exams; made it
possible for more to be hired.
Grand Canal Expansion - ✔✔-An inexpensive and efficient waterway that allowed China to become a
very popular trade in the world at the time.
Gunpowder/Guns - ✔✔-Was invented several dynasties ago; the Song invented the first guns.
Technology of how to make these items soon spread through trade along the Silk Road.
Champa Rice - ✔✔-A fast-ripening rice from Modern-day Vietnam hugely impacted the growth in China
by allowing farms to be able to grow rice where they couldn't; it even allows them to grow to 2 crops
(summer crop & winter crop) and it helped stem the growth of specialization.
Other agricultural innovations - ✔✔-Such as adding manure to fields, building detailed irrigation
systems, and new plows pulled by oxen contributed to China's agricultural success as well by producing
an abundance of food and helped grow China's population
, Steel and iron production - ✔✔-Discovered coal began to make iron; removed carbon made steel
Porto-industrialization - ✔✔-A set of economic changes in which rural area folks made more goods than
they could sell
Artisans - ✔✔-skilled workers who make goods by hand
Textiles and porcelains for export - ✔✔-Change the Chinese economy from locally bought to market
produced
Compass - ✔✔-Used in maritime navigation; allowed for sailors to be less reliant on the sky for direction
Tributes - ✔✔-Another source of income for the government that cemented China's power over
countries such as Japan Korea and other southeast Asia kingdoms
Social classes in China - ✔✔-Change due to bureaucratic growth
Scholar gentry - ✔✔-Were taught in Confucian philosophy and were the most influential social class in
China
Farmers, artisans, craftsman - ✔✔-These three positions were ranked below scholar gentry; farmers
provided food for people;artisans made goods that could be sold, and craftsman also made goods
Confucian traditions of both respect and expected difference from women - ✔✔-This patriarchal view
grew immensely in both the Tang and Song dynasties
Footbinding - ✔✔-Became common in aristocratic families was banned in 1912. Conformed girls to wrap
their feet to the point where the bones did not grow properly. Specified social status and was attractive
at the time and it restricted women from being a part of society and being able to go out.
sections with accurate answers, 100%
Accurate, graded A
Song Dynasty (960-1279) - ✔✔-Ruled a smaller region than the Tang, due to invaders from Manchuria
captured the northern part, and set up their own empire. Yet, China still flourished under the Song
Imperial Bureaucracy (continuity 221 BCE) - ✔✔-A huge organization in which chosen officials
(bureaucrats) carry out the empire's rules. Expanded the number of bureaucratic positions grew.
Civil Service Exams - ✔✔-Confucian test given to qualify a person (based on merit), and allow for him to
obtain a job in the Chinese government.
Meritocracy - ✔✔-Officials gained their position by showing their merit on Civil Service Exams; made it
possible for more to be hired.
Grand Canal Expansion - ✔✔-An inexpensive and efficient waterway that allowed China to become a
very popular trade in the world at the time.
Gunpowder/Guns - ✔✔-Was invented several dynasties ago; the Song invented the first guns.
Technology of how to make these items soon spread through trade along the Silk Road.
Champa Rice - ✔✔-A fast-ripening rice from Modern-day Vietnam hugely impacted the growth in China
by allowing farms to be able to grow rice where they couldn't; it even allows them to grow to 2 crops
(summer crop & winter crop) and it helped stem the growth of specialization.
Other agricultural innovations - ✔✔-Such as adding manure to fields, building detailed irrigation
systems, and new plows pulled by oxen contributed to China's agricultural success as well by producing
an abundance of food and helped grow China's population
, Steel and iron production - ✔✔-Discovered coal began to make iron; removed carbon made steel
Porto-industrialization - ✔✔-A set of economic changes in which rural area folks made more goods than
they could sell
Artisans - ✔✔-skilled workers who make goods by hand
Textiles and porcelains for export - ✔✔-Change the Chinese economy from locally bought to market
produced
Compass - ✔✔-Used in maritime navigation; allowed for sailors to be less reliant on the sky for direction
Tributes - ✔✔-Another source of income for the government that cemented China's power over
countries such as Japan Korea and other southeast Asia kingdoms
Social classes in China - ✔✔-Change due to bureaucratic growth
Scholar gentry - ✔✔-Were taught in Confucian philosophy and were the most influential social class in
China
Farmers, artisans, craftsman - ✔✔-These three positions were ranked below scholar gentry; farmers
provided food for people;artisans made goods that could be sold, and craftsman also made goods
Confucian traditions of both respect and expected difference from women - ✔✔-This patriarchal view
grew immensely in both the Tang and Song dynasties
Footbinding - ✔✔-Became common in aristocratic families was banned in 1912. Conformed girls to wrap
their feet to the point where the bones did not grow properly. Specified social status and was attractive
at the time and it restricted women from being a part of society and being able to go out.
