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Sui Dynasty(수): Sui Wendi(문제)
The founder of Sui Dynasty; began to construct the Grand Canal and rebuilt the Great Wall.
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Tang
Dynasty after Sui; Chang'an is the capital; political authority: Military affairs, Council of State, and Censorate
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Censorate
The branch of the imperial Chinese government that acted as a watchdog, reporting instances of misgovernment directly to emperor.
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Wu Zhao
Only female Emperor of China;
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Buddist sects: Maitreya
- believes in a future of Buddha and a cosmic messiah.
- this sect teaching often furnished the ideology
- for popular uprising and rebellions
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Buddhist sects: Amitabha Buddha
obtain salvation by Amitabha
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Buddhist sects: Zen
During the Chinese Elite, it was popular; taught that Buddha was only a man and exhorted each person to attain enlightenment by his or her own efforts. Enlightenment was to be obtained by a regiment of physical labor and meditation
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Scholarly bureaucracy
Scholars compiled dictionaries and gave some commentaries on the Confucian classic. Most men of letters were officials. Secularstream of Tang culture
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Li Bo
a poet, Daiost; he sat for civil service examinations (무과 시험 합격); his poetry is clear, powerful, passionate, and always sensitive to beauty.
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Du Fu
a poet from a literary family; his poetry is less lyrical and more allusive than Li bo's; refelcts more compassion for human suffering; felt the life is short to endure.
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Song Dynasty
- Dynasty after Tang from a revolution;
- agricultural(increase of free farmers, decline of aristocracy),
- commercial(copper cashes were coined),
- and technological(beginning of printing, the use of gunpowder).
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Examination system
10% of contestants made it; Regional-> National capital-> Palace
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Sima Guang
a historian who wrote "A Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government."; treated all Chinese history.
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Zhu Xi
a philosopher; a towering figure; new pholosophy from a combination of Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism.
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Su Dungpo
a poet, painter, and calligrapher; practiced Zen and wrote commentaries on the Confusion classics.
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Yuan
Mongol Empire in China
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Mongols
nomadic people, Altaic; family->clan->tribes-> Genghis Khan united
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Genghis Khan
Temujin, united Mongol and founded Mogol Empire
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Kublai Khan
Grandson of Genghis Khan, founded Yuan Dynasty; invaded Southern Song in 1279
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Marco Polo
Venetian trader; visited Yuan during Kublai Khan; the author of "A Description of the World"
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