| Term | Definition |
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220-589 CE |
name the period of political disorder and chaotic warfare that followed the Qin-Han era |
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Sui Dynasty (580s) |
the dynasty that ended the period of political chaos after the fall of the Qin-Han |
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Wendi |
the man responsible for the creation of the sui dynasty |
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Li Yuan |
the founder of the Tang Dynasty |
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jinshi |
the title earned by those who passed the chinese literature exams |
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members of the elite class |
people that were more attracted to Chan buddhism |
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Empress Wu |
the tang ruler who attempted to make buddhism the state religion |
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Zhao Kuangyin or Taizu |
the founder of the song dynasty |
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Zhu Xi |
the most prominent of the neo-confucians during the song era |
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the legalist assumption |
confucian school of thought that wang ashin attempted to reform the song government |
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Hangzhou |
the capital of the southern song dynasty |
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the ruling political elite |
did landscape painting in the song era |
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confucian scholar-gentry elite |
the intellectual school responsible for the production of the most literary and artistic works in the Tang-Song era |
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Bi Sheng |
the artisan responsible for the development of movable type |
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Li Bo |
an oustanding poet of the Tang era |
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Mongols |
group responsible for the fall of the southern song dynasty in 1279 |
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