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 * Examination system (pg. 370)
 * test created to find the intellectual people in the empire
 * good scores on the test meant that your social status is very great
 * could achieve high statuses in office with high grades
 * the exam could be taken by anyone which created many chances to get into power
 * most power is given to people by birth statuses
 * Revival of the Confucian thought (pg. 376)
 * Confucianism was brought back by the scholar-gentry
 * the emphasis was set on tradition, social hierarchy, and gender distinction served to ossify the Chinese social system.
 * Family and Society in the Tang-Song Era (pg. 381)
 * The position of women improved in the early Tang period but steadily declined thereafter
 * While women remained clearly subordinate, during the early Tang period, they may have enjoyed greater opportunities in a wide range of activities.
 * Chinese wives retained some legal protection against arbitrary divorce or abandonment.
 * elders and males could issue a beheading of children as a punishment for children who struck their parents or grandparents.
 * women would bind their feet because it was: "pretty" however it greatly restricted their mobility.