Tang+and+Song+Scavenger+Hunt

Natalia and Natacha 1. Find 6 major inventions of the Tang and Song dynasty in China. Describe each invention. Find an image of each invention. Explain the impact of each invention.

















2. How did the status of women change during the Tang and Song dynasties? Women's status further declined during the Tang and Song periods. This was especially true among the upper classes in cities. There a woman's work was deemed less important to the family's prosperity and status. Changing status of women was the new custom of binding the feet of upper-class girls.

3. Describe Foot binding Foot binding was a custom practiced on young girls and women for approximately one thousand years in China, beginning in the 10th century and ending in the early 20th century. 

4. Describe the Gentry class In imperial China, the Gentry Class was a class of retired landowners. They influenced the Chinese nobility during the Sui and Tang dynasties when the civil service exam which replaced the nine rank system that favored nobles.



5. How was the Civil Service reformed under the Tang and Song? The Civil Service was reformed under the Sui dynasty because the first emperor reunited northern and southern China again after it was disunited about 300 years. Tang and Song also made construction for the Grand Canal possible. They gathered millions of peasants and made them work on it for about five years. Then, during medieval ages, china re centralized and reinforced Confucianism. 



6. Describe what happened to Marco Polo Marco Polo traveled to China on the Silk Road with his uncle and his father. He worked for the Mongol emperor, Kublai Khan, for almost seventeen years. He then sailed home instead of staying in China, on his way back he brought ivory, jade, jewels, porcelain, and silk. Later on he met a famous writer named Rustichello, Marco Polo told him about his journey to China and that China's use of coal, money, and compasses. He wrote about Marco Polo's travels in a book called __The Book of Travels__. Marco Polo then became famous throughout China and Central Asia for his traveling expediences. The book also gave the Europeans some information about China. Although, when Marco Polo first came back from Chine, no one believed that China was so advanced. They put Marco Polo in jail in Italy, until they found out for themselves if what he was saying about China being so advanced was true.