Tang & Song Dynasties

The Tang and Song is known as the

• end of Chinese Civilization

• Dynastic Cycle

• Golden Age of China

• Warring States Period

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• caused new wealth in China

• allowed Song leaders to rebuild the Great Wall

• allowed the Mongols to invade

• hurt the economy

A golden age is

• rise of cities
• when a society conquers others
• an age of invention
• when a civilization is at its highest in culture

A series of rulers all from the same family is referred to as 

• a kingdom
• an empire
• a dynasty
• the king's list

Who did the Tang overthrow?

• The Song

• The Han

• The Sui

• The Zhou

Under the emperors of the Tang dynasty, China

• shrank in size but was politically stable.
• was divided into warring territories.
• closed its borders to foreign trade.
• united and expanded greatly in size.

This was used to make the earliest printed book.

• Rudder
• Movable type printing
• Woodblock printing
• Coal

What was the natural border of China that was a desert?

• Sahara
• Gobi
• Death Valley
• Antarctica

What are Gentry?

• Civil servants

• Wealthy landowners

• People who study confucian ideas

• All of the above

The Sui Dyansty

• started the Grand Canal
• invented gunpowder
• invented silk
• was the Golden Age of China