1. Chinese Society
Chapter 12
Section 2
Review

2. China
•Located in East Asia
•Third (3’rd) largest country after Russia and Canada
•World’s largest population – over 1 billion people

3. 1. What products were traded by China
along the Silk Road?
• Silk fabric
• Tea
• Steel
• Paper
• Porcelain

4. Silk Road
The 7,000 mile route spanned China, Central Asia, Northern India, and the
Byzantine and Roman Empires. It connected the Yellow River Valley to the
Mediterranean Sea and passed through places such as Chinese cities Kansu
and Sinkiang and present-day countries Iran, Iraq and Syria.

5. 2. What were some of the subjects of Tang
Poetry?
• Beauty of nature
• Changing seasons
• Good friends
• Sadness of friends parting
• Social injustices
• Problems of the poor

6. Sample Poets
Duo Fu Li Bo Bo
Li Bo
Li
What subjects did they write about?

7. Critical Thinking
3. Fill in the chart to describe the new
technologies developed in China.
Metalworking
Printing
Weapons
Sailing

8. Summarize
4. Describe the changes to Chinese
agriculture during the Tang Dynasty.
• Improved irrigation
• New ways to grow crops
• New kinds of rice produced more food
• New rice that was resistant to disease

9. Contrast
5. How do the two forms of printing
invented by the Chinese differ?
• Woodblock: entire page cut into a block of
wood
• Movable type: separate characters made
of clay joined to form words

10. Woodblock Printing
Used like an ink stamp

11. Pi Sheng
Invented Movable Type

12. Movable Type Print
Individual Characters

13. Evaluate
6. Which invention of the Tang and Song
dynasties do you think has been most
important? Explain.

14. Examples of Chinese Inventions
Porcelain is usually white or cream colored. The first
porcelain pots were left that color when they made it.
It took the West centuries to figure out how to reproduce
Chinese porcelain!

15. Examples of Chinese Inventions
The Compass allowed people to sail farther away from
home.

16. Examples of Chinese Inventions
Gunpowder was used to make fireworks and the
fire lance.

17. Examples of Chinese Inventions
Paper Money

18. Outside the Box Thinking!
Based on what we’ve learned about Chinese art, philosophy
and literature, what type of painting is this and how do you
know?

19. Dynastic Differences
TA NG S ONG