Question

Answer all questions given under the heading

Tang dynasties

1. Name the two Capital Cities built by Tang dynasties.
2. How were the aristocratic class counterbalanced?
3. Mention the sources of revenue.
4. Who led a mutiny and what was the result?

Answer 1

1. Tang dynasty built the two Capital cities Boyang and Chang-on.
2. Scholar officials, trained in Confucius Philosophy, were appointed to counterbalance the landowning aristocratic class.

3. Mention the sources of revenue.

   1. Land was divided into small peasant holdings.
   2. As a result, the agricultural surplus went to the state as taxes.
   3. State monopoly of salt and tea added to its revenues.
4. The later Middle Ages was represented by the feudal system. This was followed by a period of decline and decay.