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Question: Analyze the political and economic changes and continuities in China during the first Feudal Age of the Post Classical Age
Sui Dynasty
DiplomacyPolitical &
• •
•
Native Rule
Very Small area in the North and
Southeast of China.
• Buddhist administration. The leader
embraced this philosophy and used
it as the philosophy and the
unifying factor.
• Civil Service was made up of many
Buddhist advisers.
• Took responsibility for providing
for the people: Re-distributed land
and constructed the Grand Canal to
provide food and resources for the
people.
• Established an army of professional •
soldiers
• Became involved in wars with
Northern Tribes and Korea. Hurt
them
Tang Dynasty
•
Foreign rule
Large area that they ruled: did to
provide more resources to the
people and to control trade over the
Silk Road.
• Their government was a
combination of Native Chinese rule
(structure and civil service) and
brought some of their own (giving
local areas power)
• The Civil Service and the Gentry
was very powerful during this time.
This age represents the perfection
of the Civil Service System
Brought new weapons and tactics
to their army (horse, weapons)
• used two ethical systems
o Mahayana Buddhism
was used to rule to
lower classes with the
concept of the
Bodhisattvas.
o Confucianism was used
to rule the upper classes. • Continued Tribute system, but it
• Very liberal attitude toward non-
Chinese and other religions.
• Tribute system in Diplomacy:
Sought relations with others.
• Government took direct
responsibility for the shipment of
food from south to north.
Song Dynasty Changes/Continuities Causes of change
•
• Native Rule, sought to steer clear
Changes:
• The return of Confucianism
Return of and the evolution of
Confucianism.
of other groups.
with its changes to rule more • Return and evolution of the
• Ruled a smaller area in the east. people.
Middle Kingdom
They were cut off from the Silk
• Native Rule
Roads and surrounded by enemies.
• The evolution of the Civil
• The Song had a huge army that was
Service. Movement to the rich
led by highly educated generals.
being the only ones to get
They took the arms of the Tang and
jobs.
they made them better. Soldiers
• The changing attitude toward
were paid and professional.
foreigners and foreign ideas.
• Neo-Confucianism: A combination
between M-Buddhism and
Continuities:
Confucianism. This was meant to
• Tribute system in Diplomacy
unify the people under one rule.
• Imperial structure and the use
• Used the same imperial system
of the Civil Service.
• Civil Service was still used and
• Government took
improved; the score on the test was
responsibility for food
now the only factor for jobs.
production and distribution to
o Civil Service was very
fulfill the Mandate of Heaven.
qualified.
o only the richest could
get jobs.
was not as extensive.
• Movable type was used to spread
ideas.
• Took responsibility for food
distribution.
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Question: Analyze the political and economic changes and continuities in China during the first Feudal Age of the Post Classical Age
Sui Dynasty Tang Dynasty Song Dynasty Changes/Continuities Causes of change
E • Created a unified coinage and • Continued trade over the Silk Road • Cut off from the Silk Road. Turned Changes • Attitude toward foreigners
c standard weights and measures to and Expanded trade over the Indian to sea trade over the Indian Ocean • Trade routes: from overland and the desire to make stuff to
o promote trade. Maritime System. System. to over sea get other to buy.
n • Focused on internal trade. • Government took direct • Maritime technology (The Junk, • the growing economic
o • Built the Grand Canal to promote responsibility for the shipment of the Compass) was perfected. systems that promoted trade
m trade between areas of China. food from south to north. • Sought trading partners to get raw • The technology of trade
ic • Began a land redistribution • Unbalanced Trade: Took in a great materials and to sell goods. • Industrialization.
program to provide more land to amount of gold and silver. Unequal trade. • Tribute system
the poor. • New technologies: • Just about industrialized, adopted
o Printing --> moveable water power to the production of Continuities:
goods. Built simple machines. • Unequal balance in trade
print E
• Idea of credit was used and Flying
o Porcelain
Money was created.
o Gunpowder
o Mechanical clocks
• More cosmopolitan culture.
• Reestablished the safety of the
Silk Road.
• Tea comes into China from
Southeast Asia. E
• Standard Weights and Measures.
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Question: Analyze the political and economic changes and continuities in China during the first Feudal Age of the Post Classical Age
Sui Dynasty Tang Dynasty Song Dynasty Changes/Continuities Causes of change
Political & Diplomacy
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Question: Analyze the political and economic changes and continuities in China during the first Feudal Age of the Post Classical Age
Sui Dynasty Tang Dynasty Song Dynasty Changes/Continuities Causes of change
Economic