Chapter 10 Inner and East Asia 600-

1200Notes

AP World History

I. The Tang Empires, 618-755► A. Tang Origins

1. The Tang Empire was established in 618.►Combined Manchuria,

Mongolia, Tibet, and Korea

2. Carried out a program of territorial expansion, avoided over centralization, and combined Turkic influence with Chinese Confucian traditions.

3. Focused more on scholars more than warriors but still expanded the empire►Kept civil service exam,

meritocracy

►B. Buddhism and the Tang Empire 1. Emperors used Buddhist idea

that kings are spiritual agents who bring their subjects into a Buddhist realm.►(Ashoka did the same for India)

2. Buddhist monasteries received tax exemptions, land, and gifts.

3. Mahayana Buddhism and its flexible beliefs encouraged the adaptation of local deities into the pantheon.

4. Buddhism spread following trade routes that converged on Tang capital Chang’an, making it a cosmopolitan city.► mixed styles, goods, and cultures from

every part of Asia

► C. Chang’an by Land and Sea 1. Had a half a million

residents. 2. Foreigners lived in special

compounds; urban residents lived in walled, gated residential quarters.

3. Grand Canal brought people and goods into the city.► From the Indian Ocean Trade

4. Islamic and Jewish merchants from Western Asia came to China via the Indian Ocean Trade Routes.►Received trade from Silk Road

and military garrisons were set up along the trade route

5. Ships brought goods and the Bubonic plague.

6. Focused on scholars not military but did expand to Korea and Tibet

► D. Trade and Cultural Exchange 1. Tang China combined Turkic

and Chinese culture and brought grape wine, tea, and spices.

2. Lost monopoly on silk, but began to produce its own cotton, tea, and sugar.

3. Exported far more than imported with high quality silks and porcelain being among its most desired products.

4. Poetry talked about daily life

5. Received tribute at Chang’anwhich was the largest city in the world at this time

II. Rivals for Power in Inner Asia and China 600-907

►A. The Uighur and Tibetan Empires 1. Uighur Empire was in

Central Asia. 2. Combined Islam and

China and developed own script and lasted for 50 years.

3. Tibet was a large empire with access to all parts of Asia and was open to Indian, Chinese, Islamic, and even Greek Culture.

4. Early relations between Tibet and Tang were good, but went bad when Tibet allied themselves with the southwestern kingdom of Nanchaoagainst the Tang.

5. In the 9th

century, a Tibetan king attempted to eliminate Buddhism but failed.►Assassinated by

monks

► B. Upheavals and Repression, 750-879 1. In the late 9th century Tang broke the

power of the Buddhist monasteries and Confucian ideology was reasserted.

2. This happened because Buddhism was seen as undermining the family system and eroding the tax base by accumulating tax-free land and attracting hundreds of thousands of people to become monks and nuns.►Monasteries could not be taxed

3. Buddhism had supported Wu Zhao, a women to become empress.►Emperor’s concubine, all ties killed

4. Confucian scholars concocted accounts that painted highly critical portraits of Wu Zhao and other influential women in Chinese history.►Temples destroyed►Non earthly ties seen as barbaric►Argued that Buddhism was a foreign

religion

►C. The End of the Tang Empire 1. Tang collapsed

because it relied too much on provincial governors and they established their own kingdoms.

2. None of these smaller kingdoms were able to integrate territory on the scale of the Tang and communication with the Islamic world and Europe was cut off.

►1. What is the importance of Inner and Central Asia as a region of interchange during the Tang period?

►2. What was used to facilitate communication and trade between northern and southern China?

►3. What was the tributary system?

►4. What led to the decline of the Tang?

►5. Whom did the Tang blame most for the growing instability in the empire?

III. Emergence of East Asia, to 1200

► A. The Liao and Jin Challenge 1. The Liao, Jin, and

Chinese Song grew out of the Tang Empire.

2. Liao were nomads and settled agriculturalists and were of the Khitan ethnic group.►Farming horsemen

3. Liao Empire lasted from 916-1121 and forced the Song to give tributes ►annual payments of cash

and silk in return for peace.

4. The Song Empire (1127-1279) helped the Jurchens of northeast Asia to defeat the Liao and the Jurchensestablished the Jin Empire and drove the Song out of north and central China.

5. Song continued to reign in south China

► B. Song Industries 1. Song made a number of

technological innovations in the areas of mathematics, astronomy, and calendar making.

2. In 1088 the engineer Su Song constructed a huge chain driven clock that told the time and the day of the month and indicated the movements of the moon and certain stars and planets.

3. Made the compass suitable for seafaring.

4. Introduced the sternpost rudder and watertight bulkheads (junk).

5. Introduced a standing, professionally trained, regularly paid military and used iron and steel and gunpowder in their wars.

► C. Economy and Society in Song China 1. Civilian officials dominated

society and put a higher value on aesthetic pursuits including a Neo-Confucian philosophy and Zen Buddhism continued to be popular.►Balance of serenity and mental

stability to deal with social problems

►sage 2. Civil Service examination

system was reintroduced (Han) and allowed men to be chosen by merit.

3. With the invention of movable type the Song were able to mass-produceauthorized preparation textsand contributed to dissemination of new agricultural technology which spurred population growth.

4. Population rose to 100 million►Had army of more than a

million►Competed with north for coal

and iron mines►Experimented with gunpowder

5. An interregional credit system called flying money and the introduction of government-issued paper money, but it caused inflation and was later withdrawn.

6. Not able to control the market economy and a new merchant elite thrived in the cities and their wealth derived from trade, not land.

7. Women status declined, lost rights to own property, remarriage was forbidden, foot binding became a mark of the elite and mandatory.

IV. New Kingdoms in East Asia

► A. Korea 1. Korean hereditary elite

absorbed Confucianism and Buddhism from China and passed them along to Japan.►Appealed because of personal

salvation

2. The several small Korean kingdoms were untied first by Silla in 668 and then by Koryoin the early 900s. Korea used woodblock printing as early as the 700s and later invented moveable type.

► B. Japan 1. Home to hundreds of small

states that were unified perhaps by horse-riding warriors from Korea in the 4th or 5th century.►Only 11% land able to be

cultivated 2. In the mid 7th century,

implemented a series of political reforms to establish a centralized government, legal code, national histories, architecture, and city planning based on the model of Tang China.

3. However, they adapted it to the needs of Japan and maintained their own concept of emperorship and the native religion of Shinto survived.►Way of the gods, worshipped the

kami (nature and all of the forces of nature)

►Eventually syncretism Fusion of differing systems of beliefs

4. Women became royal consorts and Suiko reigned as empress taking over from her husband’s death in 592.

5. During the Heianperiod (794-1185) the Fujiwara clan dominated the Japanese government and civil officials were placed above warriors.

6. However, by 1000 some warrior clans had become wealthy and powerful and one clan established the Kamakura Shogunate, with its capital at Kamakura in eastern Honshu.

►C. Vietnam 1. Geographical proximity and

a similar, irrigated wet-rice agriculture made Vietnam suitable for integration with southern China.►Helps pave way for economic

revolution in Song Dynasty

2. The elite of Annam modeled their high culture after the Chinese.

3. The kingdom of Champaexported the fast-maturing Champa rice to China.

4. Status of women was higher than in China.►Heavily agricultural