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-followed Inner Asia as an example in their political use of Buddhism. -protecting spirits were to help the ruler govern and prevent harm from coming to his people. -attacked for encouraging women in politics. -Capital of the Tang Empire -it became the center of a continent wide system of communication -Central Asians, Tibetans, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Koreans visited it regularly as was influenced by it with the most recent ideas -allowed for the mixing of material things and cultural influences from different places -Uighur and Tibetan Empires -Uighur: new Turkic group; took much of Inner Asia -Excelled as merchant and as scribes and adapted syllabic script of the Sogdians -their flourishing urban culture exhibited a cosmopolitan enthusiasm for Buddhist teachings -religious art derived from Northern India and a mixture of East Asian and Islamic tastes in dress -power collapsed after half a century -followed the Tang to eliminate the social and political influence of monasteries. -Liao Empire of the Khitan people emerged in the north. They were nomads and were closely related to the Mongols. -Tangguts of the Minyak people in west China. -Song Empire in central China. -use of fractions to describe the phases of the moon. -made a precise calendar and developed the compass. -made a stern-mounted rudder which helped in steering of large ships in uneasy seas. -produced strong steel weapons and body armor. also produced gunpowder. -large bureaucracy oversaw their design and administration. -questions asked were based on Confucian classics usually of economic management and foreign policy. -hereditary class distinctions meant less than in the Tang empire. Song recruited most talented men. -usually more wealthy men because of the time it took to memorize the classics. -Success in examinations brought good marriage prospects, chance for a high salary, and enormous prestige. -Failure could bankrupt a family and ruin a man both socially and physiologically. -culturally subordinate. -they were depended on by husbands to manage homes and businesses while the husband was away. -women's property belonged to her husband. and women could not remarry even after she was divorced or widowed. -Koryo. -ancient family of priests, bureaucrats, and warriors. Champa rice. -Constructed along lakeshores or in marshes and were created by heaping lake muck and waste products on beds of reeds -permitted year round agriculture b/c of subsurface irrigation and resistance to frost and thus played a crucial in sustaining growing population -also it permitted them to advance in art, architecture, and trade -fought to secure captives rather than territory. -important politically and religiously -Were essential to household economy. maintained garden plots and weaved. managed family life. -organized labor of clans and additional laborers sent by defeated people to expand agricultural land. -war captives, criminals, slaves. people provided by dependent regions. -domesticated llamas and alpacas which provided meat, wool, long-distance transportation which linked coastal and mountain economies.
 * WHAP Chapter 10 and 11 Test** **Friday November 7th 2008**
 * 6th century China
 * trade between North China and South China and the Sui
 * Buddhism in the Tang Empire as a political influence
 * Chang’an’s importance
 * Chinese maritime innovations included
 * Rivals to the Tang Empire
 * The Uigurs
 * Tibetan government’s relations with monasteries (later years)
 * Post Tang Empire states that emerged
 * Song technological innovations
 * Buddhists drew upon Indian and Tibetan folk practice and created a meditative practice known as
 * Song civil service examinations
 * As prosperity and population in Song China
 * Women during the Song period
 * In the early tenth century, Korea was united under which dynasty?
 * Koreans and the Buddhist texts
 * The Fujiwara family of Heian Japan.
 * The gift of Champa to Song
 * Classic period civilizations in Mesoamerica were built on an earlier civilization
 * Mesoamericans and human sacrifice
 * Chinampas “floating gardens”
 * Teotihuacan
 * the Mayan political state
 * Maya monumental architecture
 * The classic era Maya military forces
 * Roles of Mesoamerican women
 * Mayan contributions to mathematics
 * The Toltecs’
 * Aztec society
 * The Aztecs challenges of feeding a growing population
 * Aztec sacrificial victims
 * The Anasazi, a desert people, led an enriched cultural life centered on
 * The domestication of animals in the Andes
 * The Moche and other Andean cultures
 * Andean cities that precede the Incan civilization