Thursday, October 23, 2008
Unit 5 Test Questions
Ok folks, a couple of things... 1) this area will be open this afternoon for you to work on studying for your test tomorrow as always. I'll be on periodically throughout the day, and when I'm not, you all have been doing an excellent job of helping each other out. Truly, I have seen some of the best performances on tests this year because of this format, so I hope tomorrow goes well. 2) On the reading quizzes I handed out today, there was one error on what I handed back to 1st, 3rd, and 4th periods. The answer to #1 on RQ 9C should be E, not D. I caught that on 5th and 7th period's but not the morning classes. If you are from a morning class and #1 erroneously was marked wrong and you did put E, just bring it by tomorrow to my desk so I can fix your grade. Cheers!
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umm.. is tang taizong the 1st or second emperor because in the book it says that he is the second. then who is the first emperor of the tang dynasty?
what were the tang dynasty's attitude towards the scholar gentry???
let's see if this works
oh is your blog thing working lora? i just got on to check for you.
yep It's working now. Check out the baseball article, ir's funny.
mr. prill was that book called again? the one with 92 pages?
What was the Japanese name for peasants?
Jordan-
genin
the tang kept the civil service exams and wanted there to be scholar gentry in government.
Kevin-
my notes say that the scholared and gentry were valued...
Tang Taizong was the second emperor Lydia. The first one took over Chang-an and started the Tang dynasty, but it was Tang Taizong that truly started the prosperous era of the early Tang Dynasty. Remember that he had 3 points to restore China to its "former glory."
1. Rebuild and maintain transportation and communication networks (Restore Silk Roads).
2. Redistribute land (equal-land system)
3. Establish meritocracy
the downfall of the sui dnasty had to do with internal conflict due to how they treated the workers right? what else caused for the fall of the sui dynasty?
"High taxes and forced labor generated hostility among the people."- came from text book
People were unhappy with the oppressive government and they had rebellions in northern China. Eventaully the Sui emperor was assassinated in 618, which ended the dynasty.
Thanks Nelson!
When the tang took over did they have more or less land than the sui? and same thing with song dynasty?
What were the agricultural policies in the tang/song era?
the tang had MUCH more, as far west as modern afghanistan. as far as the song dynasty is concerned, remember, there are four words you must remember: smaller territory, bigger bureaucracy (sounds like a really cheesy ad for a sorry fast-food chain).
right! i remember that from class! Thanks mr.prill!
Who r the Jurchens?I have it written in my notes that they kept attacking the Songs..
I take back my question on the agrarian policies..i found it in my notes..
the jurchens were a nomadic "kingdom" to the northeast of the song kingdom. their attacks in 1115 pushed the song kingdom further south, reducing it in size yet again
in terms of agriculture, just remember that advancements will result in a boost in population, especially in terms of champa rice (found in vietnam that ripens 2x as fast, therefore doubling output), the discovery of the wonders of manure, etc.
Also, how is the tale of genji important other than the fact a woman wrote it and it shows the way of life?
that's it... it's also evidence of a strong literary movement during the heian period.
thanks nelson!!
nidhi - in my notes it says that the jurchens were nomads who attacked the song dynasy and took over the huanghe river and grand canal.....
in the tang and song era what caused commercial expansion?
first and foremost a boost in agricultural production, that sets everything in motion.
thanks..what's kami?
the kami is what is worshipped in shinto. essentially nature and the forces of nature, both seen and unseen.
what was the class system like in korea?
Lydia,
i think the main important thing in that is that the nobles were granted power in the beareaucracy instead of the scholars, as they had it in china.
So vietnamese practiced confucianism?
"many Vietnamese retained their indigenous religions in preference to Chinese cultural traditions."
In the Book ^
Whenever I think of Tang Taizong I think of him in a Batman suit cleaning up the crime of China...
so then what did they get from the chinese?
they got confucianism,but that was for the elite. The adopted agricultural and irrigation techniques, Confucian thought for the elite, and administrative techniques.
an explanation of the taika reforms
http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~gwang/id101.htm
okay thanks nidhi!
oh thanks!
ok so i have a few im confused about.. taika reforms is just when chinese beuracracy system is like adopted or used by japan?
and also.. i dont understand feudalism at all.. feudal age of japan.. or anything.
and thie silla dynasty and korean bureaucracy.. all i know about korea is that they were the MOST influenced by china, and were like a puppet state to them.. but im not sure about anything about the silla dynasty or korean bureaucracy..
and the last question, i dont know anything about vietnam and how they retained chinese aspects, resistance, and vietnamese women.. is this where vietnam just used "selective borrowing"? because in my notes, i have that written down for japan.. and how they used zen buddhisn and just changed things in their own ways.. and neo confuscianism? i feel like i have alot mixed up..
ok.. sally,
you got taika reforms practically right.
- feudalism in japan is when there are like two japans like the fujiwara family and the yamato family who are ruling but their are also a bunch of local rulers who want the control, so its chaos, then one of them wins, which is a guy named yoritomo minomoto, who claims control, but he leaves the emperor there and takes upon the title shogun, or head commander or general, so he using the emperor to do his things and he turns all of japan into a military state so that he can reform the structure.also he creates the code of bushido which is based on honor and loyalty to the shogun or the classes greater than a person. so feudalism is when a country is based on a military government.
- the silla dynasty was the dynasty that was in charge of korea until china began to go after it for the land, but they had a compromise so that the silla empror could stay in charge of korea but still be in the hands of the chinese and he'd have to perform kow tow(placing your head to the feet of the chinese emperor to prove your loyalty to him). so korea began to be influenced a lot by china through its government, culture, and etc.. korea constructed a bereaucracy that was just like the chinese except for that they didn't establish a bereaucracy based on merit, but on nobility. also they took up confucianism (i think) and buddhism..
- Vietnam never used selesctive borrowing, but it was japan that did..also Vietnam resisted the Tang when they tried to take over. and like alec said before, the elites took up confucianism and different systems, while the regular people kept practicng their own cultures.
Hope that helps!
taika reforms is just when chinese beuracracy system is like adopted or used by japan?
Essentially, it was an attempt to place a Tang- style beuracracy without the Confucianism in Japan. However in reality it did not work, the goal was not feasible to unite Japan due to the many clans and clan leaders.
-and also.. i dont understand feudalism at all.. feudal age of japan.. or anything.
Feudalism is based upon one gorup of people wiping the feet of other groups. AT the top is the shogun (chief genral), then daimyo (samurai commanders/landowners), vassals (lesser samurai), and genin (peasants)
It was largely based on group identity and loyalty.
oopsi forgot to mention zen buddhism:
well its the type of buddhism that the japanese practiced so it was like a mix of buddhism and shintoism. it was one of the major ways we're supposed to remember..
nidhi and alec,
wow thank you SO much it really helped. i also looked at my reading quizzes 9C and 9A and i got alotta helpful information from there.. about the questions i asked earlier.. again, THANK YOU SO MUCH!
What are some main characteristics of the song dynasty? I remember talking about the Tang and Sui dynasties but for some reason I dont remember much about the song.
Remember that Vietnam was the least influenced, because although they took many things from the Chinese, such as agricultural techniques, they entirely refused Chinese culture and political systems. Vietnam was many villages and clans governed by village leaders, and China couldn't rule them because of homefield advantage. And although Vietnam never truly wanted to form a tributary relationship with China, eventually they did, but remained very much independent.
Also, another reason for unsuccessful conquests in not only Vietnam, but also Korea was because of the first Song emperor, who retired his best generals and with larger bureaucracies, the bureaucrats, who only knew Confucian thoughts, were govening military affairs.
Korea was the most influenced due to the strict tributary relationship and the deep cultural and political influence between the two countries. Kora became much like China, but was never truly a mirror of China.
Japan was somewhere in-between. They accepted Buddhist thought, but didn't disregard Shintoism, and began Zen Buddhism. The Taika Reforms were attempts to create large bureaucracries like China's, but local land lords (Daimyo in Feudalism) entirely rejected the idea. Japan started to parallel the Western empire of Europe, rather than China, as it fell into Feudalism, which was an honor system, like Livaditis explained. Shogun ran political and military affairs, Daimyo controlled their lands, Samurai were hired to protect Daimyo in exchange for land to live on, Genin were hired to farm land in exchange for keep what they need to eat from what they made, and land to live on. Truly a loyalty-based system. The Bushido Code was the code of loyalty and honor, much like the Laws of Chivalry, however the European system used laws and contracts, rather than the Japanese guidelines.
Hope this helps explains any previous questions and future questions...(Really just a larger perspective of what Patel and Livaditis explained.)
The song dynasty was the one with the motto "Less territory, more bereaucracy." they were cut in half when the Jurchens took over north china. they had an awesome economy but a horrible military. because since the bereaucracy ws bigger they had to have more officials so they made the tests easier and so more people could become officials, well the emperor made all his great generals retire early because he ws scared they would overthrow him, and so China didn't have a good military without good generals, so they had to appoint the officials who were philosophers into the military, and so they were all artsy craftsy instead of protecting the country...but at that time china had great literature and paintings. Does that help u remember the conversation we had in class.
What exactly are the Sui reforms? just like the grand canal and reastablishing the bureaucracy?
And what are the "connections to the Tang" during the Song Dynasty.
Also, urbanization in the song dynasty. Prill never went over it in our class cuz the bell rang.
Finally, what was the role of women in Japan? I know one of them wrote the first book. Is that pretty much all?
Mason i think you're mixed up.
Japan was the least influenced. Vietnam was in the middle, and Korea was the most influenced.
Think of how Japan ended up, with a feudal system, not resembling at all China, and they rejected the taika reforms.
In vietnam they accepted some of the stuff.
yeah the sui reforms are that.
they r probably asking to make a connection between song and tang's economy, they both included development in the trade and agriculture..i dont think we really talked about urbanization during class, except i remember mr.p mentioning it and how more people moved to the cities because of more wealth and economical value.
Song was a period of cultural and economic power. The artistry and fine works of literature from the Song dynasty were its trademarks. The economic power was incredible, as the documents from today's DBQ showed, especially with the mention of the many imports and exports of China, and Merco Polo's recollection of the market places, how vast and diverse the goods were, and how quickly they sold. Song China was truly an economic powerhouse. Also, its political system was a large bureaucracy governing small lands. A lot of bureaucrats emerged from making the civil service exams easier. Confucian scholars were running political and military affairs, which weakened China in both aspects. Remember China failed in both Korea and Vietnam, and was made smaller by external attacks by the Jurchens, nomadic kingdom of the northwest.
Hope that helps with the Song dynasty, if anyone wants to add anything I forgot, or revise anything I stated incorrectly, please do so...
Actually Mason, I remember Mr. Prill saying that Japan was less influenced than Vietnam. Even though Vietnam didn't like the Chinese they still adopted agricultural and military techniques from China while Japan practiced "selective borrowing". They basically took some Chinese ideas and blended them with their own, such as Zen Buddhism. As time went on much of China's influence on Japan completely disappeared and Japan developed very differently from China.
i agree with kirsten..
Oh right, thank you Kirsten, I got them mixed up, I have them the way you said in my notes...sorry for any confusion!
Yeah that makes much more sense than whatever I said...I kept questioning myself...
So wait what was the role of women?
In Song China, the role of women was awful, very patriarchal, I forgot to mention footbinding, which was a method used to increase the dependence of women on men. Also, women pretty much HAD to do it for any hope of marriage because it was so popular after one of their emperors had a small foot fetish. It wasn't widely adopted in other societies(Especially Vietnam, which was not the least influenced).
role of women for wat?
Oh, yes, but however women did(I think) write works of literature...
I know Tale of Genji was written by a Japanese women, not 100% on whether or not Chinese women had a role in the cultural innovation of the Song dynasty period, although I'd assume with footbinding limiting movement, writing literature or painting could be an acceptable pasttime among women...
Role of women in China...
In japan. Sorry I didn't specify.
i don't think we went over it besides the fact that a woman wrote the tale of genji. but I would assume that Japanese women had more rights. I'm pretty sure they didn't do foot binding.
Yeah women had more rights in Japan then in China. The main example is the Tale of Genji during the literautre boom. I forgot what else Prill said but i remember he said something about them having more rights and freedoms.
hey. sorry, this may be stupid, but what was the ultimate reason for the Tang dynasty fell??
k thanks. so speaking of quizes/tests, don't we have an ap chem quiz tomorrow? ;]
I would admit that they didn't practice footbinding, but women probably didn't have much more rights, they probably were very dependent on their husbands to farm the lands for the Samurai, and gave birth to children to help with production, and probably also were used to work in the fields or tend to the ill or wounded when they weren't taking care of children or preparing food.
Also, with China's cultural innovation I wouldn't argue against literary and artistic works by women, as I stated before it was probably a widely practiced pasttime for women.
I have in my notes that the gov. employed nomads to put down a peasant revolt, and after the nomads do that they put down the gov also
wasteful spending. Remember Xuanzong and his wife....At the end of the Tang, they became over luxurious. People started rebelling because they disapproved of the emperor's wife. Xuanzong, in a stroke of brilliance, called on the Uighurs for protection and defense. he told them to put down the uprising. They did. But they also took down Chang'an. That was the immediate cause for the collapse. But the underlying cause was wasteful spending.
and yeah, kirsten, we do.
I remember Prill saying tha women weren't prominent in Japan at this time. He said they though they got in the way...
In the book it explains how the Tale of Genji created a unique Japanese literature style, because women did not receive formal Chinese education...
And it would be about....?
And don't say the stuff we've been learning :p
Kirsten what's the question?
uhh idk....i think its like 5.1-5.6...that's pretty much the stuff we've covered
what the chem quiz is about
I don't know I have Gifted Chemistry(sooooo easy), and no quizzes/tests...but, Miss Edwards, to answer YOUR question...Rebellions began to break out in northern China, because, remember, Xuanzong turned to pleasure-seeking, arts, and entertainment(try saying it like Mr. P, funnier) and met a girl in a harim, married her and she convinced him to use tax money on other things, which angered people, so, being scared of rebellions...(stupidest thing to do...)Xuanzong employed the Uighurs, nomadic groups, and their powerful military to quell rebellions, and they ended up taking over the capital and tearing apart the Tang dynasty, and it wasn't for...3 decades? until the Song dynasty emerged with Song Taizu, who was repsected as the most able and honorable general...
Ap chem... quiz,
I'm doing study solver Cliffs notes right now.
:(
ugh. You're unhelpful :]
Alec, it was about the chemistry quiz tomorrow lol
Right, I forgot about that...women in the way...Gotta remember that for a Japanese pick-up line...
I think there's going to be a ideal gas law problem, PV=nRT, problem and the other eqation, and combined gas law, PV/ t= PV/T.
I think women were less prominent in Japan.
Who knows...maybe the women liked a man to take charge and say "You're always in my way"?
Is everyone clear on the AP World TEST TOMORROW, I'd like to get a 5, or maintain my 4 average at least for the "hardest test so far"...I think actually participating in this whole..."study session online the computer light flashy thingy" might help...still for some reason I have trouble, maybe its just the time of day or something...I have trouble reading the questions, like I have to go over them over and over and over again but it's like I'm conscious but unconscious at the same time...So I end up wasting time and then I have to rush through 20-30 question in like 10-15 minutes...epic fail...
The worst part is going back on test corrections, wondering why I put that as the answer, and when it says, which area was not influenced by Islam, or whatever, and it says Europe and South America and I put Europe...that was an example...
thank you:]]
wow u guys r really talking about random things, i went for like 30 minutes and we're talking about chemistry.tsk tsk..jk..so whatz up?
hey ankur, if u r still here, the ap chem test is probably gonna be over ideal gas law and the M=DRT/P, and the new stuff we learned today about using stps to find solution of formulas. i have barnnett so yeah he doesn't help whatsoever!
Japanese women, so they didn't have footbinding right?
i gotta go guys.....deuces
hey folks, i'm here for any last minute questions you may have before i shut down my computer... questions regarding world history that is, i nothing of these gas laws you speak of...
woah sorry....that was unintentionally rude...i didn't mean to say bye as soon as u started tlkin to me.
but yeah..i still gotta go..
sorry for the gas laws, prill.
Mr. Prill, this is like chemistry to the extreme and we all hate it unlike world history ofcourse, chemistry bores us all to death!
thats cool ankur, u can go,bye, and i need to go 2, so bye peoples, good luck on the test tommorrow!
yeah, chemistry never did it for me either. that's why i teach on the side of the hallway i do.
my notes on korea are very short. =[
what were th retained chinease aspects?
Mr. Prill, who were the Silla in Japan?
ha sorry for the chemistry stuff. It was my fault. :]
Night everybody
do we need to know the ranks in the japanese society
I have a few things to ask...
1.Importance of Heian Period...
2.Attitude toward scholar-gentry during the Song dynasty...
3.Commercial Expansion of Tang-Song...
4.Agricultural policies of Tang-Song...
5.Can you summarize Korea?
6.Vietnamese resistance...
7.Vietnamese women...
Wanna make sure I'm clear on all these...Sorr if its a lot...
NEVERMIND! i so crazy haha sapp
Silla is the Korean tributary dynasty
the main thing to remember on korea miss sapp is that although they were in a tributary relationship with china, and modeled they're capital after them, and accepted buddhism, they fell short of building a meritocracy (again, a bureacracy based on merit).
i'm guessing we don't need to know the ranks because it doesnt say anything about them on the studyguide.
Nevermind, I found them in the book. But to summarize Korea Mason: they were a subject of siniifcation (how do you spell that???), but they kept some aspects of their culture, mainly the adversion to a Meritocracy. They believed that only nobles had the right to rule.
yeah mr. trevino, know who is under who and how they're tied together (shogun, daimyo, lesser samurai [vassals], pesants [genin], in that order)
knowing the ranks in your mind may help you answer other questions miss sapp.
Thanks mr. prill!
good luck on all yall's tests! =]
nightynight! sweet dreams frienddsss. haha
sapp
and the Vietnamese women had more rights than those in China.
ok mr. gaultney, your concerns...
1.Importance of Heian Period... this is the period that japanese identity truly begins to take shape (ex/ the literary movement of the period), also the ignorance of the fujiwara fam during that period allows other ambitious families to rise up to take control of japan, essentially in the end leading to the necessity of a feudal system.
2.Attitude toward scholar-gentry during the Song dynasty... the song dynasty boosts the power of the scholar-gentry even more, so much so that the bureaucracy becomes bloated with unqualified do-nothings, leading to the weakness of the kingdom.
3.Commercial Expansion of Tang-Song... a boost in exports leads to a complex market economy, leading to a complex banking system and inventions like junks and the printing press to handle demand (an economic revolution if you will)
4.Agricultural policies of Tang-Song... this is answered by me in an early response this afternoon
5.Can you summarize Korea?
most sinicized, forced into a tributary relationship with china and from this relationship comes a cultural exchange including buddhism coming into korea. only the idea of a meritocracy is rejected.
6.Vietnamese resistance... leads ultimately to independence shortly after the fall of the Tang dynasty
7.Vietnamese women... had much more freedom and presence in society than chinese women.
Alright thanks there Mr.P
and thank you as well Rachael, and sinification was spelled correct besides the type siniifcation...
I have to stay up to work on that poetry analysis thing...
no prob man... prill, OUT! all the best tomorrow. seems like this has been yet another rather productive study session.
typo siniifcation*
thanks for all the info...
mr prill, the test wasnt as hard as i thought! but watch, just becasue i said that im gonna make like a 2 or a 1 on it!
well i hope you did well miss carroll.
well i think i did well on the test. some questions were confusing but others were easy. soo can't wait to know my grade! lol
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