AP World HistoryOctober 30, 2015

Warm Up Question

Tang Dynasty Tang Cross-Cultural ExchangeTang EconomyChang’anJunksFlying Money

Agenda

• Tang China• Graphic Organizer• Primary Source Activity

• Reminders: • First outline in 5 steps to a 5 due Monday (Chapter 12)

Essential Questions

• How did Buddhism facilitate interaction in Tang China? • How did Central Asian influence transform China in the Tang Period?

Graphic Organizer

Primary Source

• Following the collapse of empires, most reconstituted governments, including the Tang —• Combined traditional sources of power and

legitimacy, like patriarchy with innovations like the political use of Buddhism to better suited to the current circumstances.

• There was technological and cultural transfers Between Tang China and the Abbasids• Chinese, Persian, and Indian artisans and

merchants expanded their production of textiles and porcelains for export; industrial production of iron and steel expanded in China.