History 1113


Governance In Tang and Song China

I. Politics


A.   Tang (T'ang) Dynasty (618-907)

 1.  Li Yuan (Li Yüan) [LI yoo-AHN], Duke of Tang (618-626)
 
 

 2.  Tang Taizong (T'ang T'ai-tsung) (626-649)
 
 
 

 3.  Empress Wu Zhao (Wu Chao) [woo jow] (690-705)
 
 
 
 
 

 4.   Xuanzong (Hsüan-tsung) [shoo-WAHN-ZHANG] (r. 712/713-756)
 
 
 

 5.  Decline of the Tang (T'ang) Dynasty
 
 


 B.
Song (Sung) Dynasty (960-1279)

 1.   Song Taizu (Sung T'ai-tsu) [SOHNG TEYE-shoo] (960-976)

 
 
 
 
 
 

 2.  Liao [LEE-OW] Empire 

 
 

 3.   Jin (Chin) Empire under the Jurchen (Jürchen) [JUHR-chen] 


 
 
 

 4.  Southern Song (Sung) dynasty
 


 


 II.  Economy and Society
 


 A.  Agriculture & Urbanization
 
 
 
 
 
 


 B.  Technological Developments

 
 
 
 
 
 


 C.  Market Economy

 
 
 
 
 
 


 D.  Culture

 1.  University Examination System


 
 
  2.  Patriarchy
 

 
 

Key Terms:
Manchuria
An Lushan/Rokhshan
 
Gao Khan
Koso Khan
Lady Yang a.k.a. Yang Guifei (712/713-756 C.E.)
Kaghan
Uighurs
Beijing
Cathay

Khitan
Jurchen
Kaifeng
equal field system
fast-ripening rice
Vietnam
urbanization
porcelain
gunpowder
printing
silk, lacquerware
"flying cash"
prefectural schools
monastery

foot-binding

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