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| Questão | Responda |
| tributary states (ex: Tibet, Korea, Vietnam) | states that remained self-governing but their rulers had to acknowledge Chinese supremacy and pay tribute to the emperor |
| land reform | a system in which Tang emperors broke up large agricultural land holdings and redistributed the land to peasants. This strengthened the central government by weakening the power of large landowners. |
| gentry | a wealthy landowning class that valued learning more than physical labor. They supported a revival of Confucian thought |
| dowry | the payment a woman brings to a marriage. She is unable to keep the dowry or remarry. (not always money, could be clothes for the woman) Enforced that men were valued more than women |
| Li Bo | a very great Tang poet. He moved about to many places and wrote around 2,000 poems celebrating harmony with nature or lamenting the passage of time. |
| Tang Taizong | A brilliant general, government reformer, historian, and master of the calligraphy brush. He became China's most admired emperor |
| Wu Zhao | a FEMALE empress of the Tang dynasty who ruthlessly took power into her own hands. She had risen to a position of influence from a very low position. |
| Tang dynasty | a dynasty that resorted China to its earlier glory (the way it was during the Han dynasty) they issued land reform, had tributary states, and had a female empress |
| Li Yuan | A general under the Sui dynasty who, when the Sui started to deteriorate, he and his son lead a revolt and crushed rivals to establish the Tang dynasty. |
| Song dynasty | They ruled slightly longer than the Tang and started foot binding. They had scholar gentries and paper money |
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