Chinese Dynasty Notes

Dynastic Rule in ChinaA.D. 589-1644

Dynastic Rule

How did this dynasty rise to power?

How did this dynasty govern China?

Sui

Tang

Song

Yuan

Ming

in China A.D. 589-1644

What belief systems did this dynasty encourage?

How did this dynasty affect daily life in China?

List two ways this dynasty helped unite China?

Sui Dynasty

Sui DynastyHow did this dynasty rise to

power?

General Yang Jian conquered several areas and unified China for the first time in 400 yearsYang Jian made himself emperor and founded Sui DynastyYang Jian changed his name to Wen Di

Sui Dynasty

How did this Dynasty govern China?

Wen Di and Yang Di were harsh rulersforced peasants to work in army and build public works projects

Sui Dynasty

What belief systems did this dynasty encourage? Discourage?

Wen Di was Buddhistencouraged Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism

Sui DynastyHow did this dynasty affect daily

life in China?

Grand Canal promoted traderebuilding of the Great Wall provided security

Sui DynastyList two ways this dynasty

helped unite China?

public work projectsGrand Canal, Great Wall

extended military control

Tang Dynasty

Tang Dynasty

How did this dynasty rise to power?

Taizong helped his father to found the Tang Dynasty by rebelling against the Sui

Tang Dynasty

How did this dynasty govern China?

Wu Zhao (only female ruler) helped to enlarge the empire

Empress Wu Zhao

Tang Dynasty

How did this dynasty govern China?

Wu Zhao (only female ruler) helped to enlarge the empirebureaucracy

government made up of departments each with its own area

scholar-officials used Confucian ideas to help them serve the government

Tang Dynasty

What belief systems did this dynasty encourage? Discourage?

At first Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism were encouragedLater Buddhism was discouraged

Emperor Wu Zong ordered the destruction of 4,600 Buddhist monasteries

At first…

then…

destruction of Buddhist temples

Tang DynastyHow did this dynasty affect daily

life in China?

scholar class became new ruling elite

land reform gave some peasants a chance to gain wealth

golden age for poetry and art

Tang Dynasty

List two ways this dynasty helped unite China.

emperors directly controlled armyagricultural reforms benefited both the government and commoners

Song Dynasty

Song Dynasty

How did this dynasty rise to power?

Tai Zu emerged after 50 years of civil war to found the Song dynasty

Song Dynasty

How did this dynasty govern China?Mongolians threatened China’s northern border for 200 years

Song royal family forced to move capital of empire to southern China

northern China was under foreign rulescholar-officials came from southern Chinese families

scholar-officials chosen by results from civil service exam

Song Dynasty

What belief systems did this dynasty encourage? Discourage?(Zen) Buddhism became popular in China and East Asia

Song Dynasty

How did this dynasty affect daily life in China?

power of merchant rose as trade increasednew form of rice allowed farmers to double their production

Song Dynasty

List two ways this dynasty helped unite China.move center of Chinese culture from the north to the southused meritocracy to make government efficient and reliable

meritocracy=most qualified people get the job

Advances under the Tang and Song

discovery of teamanufacture of paperwood-block printingmagnetic compassgunpowder

Daily Opener 12/6

1. How many Khanates was the Mongol Empire divided into?

2. What is the name of the trade routes that connected Europe with China?

Yuan Dynasty

Mongols

Yuan DynastyHow did this

dynasty rise to power?

dynasty founded by Kublai KhanKublai fought Song Dynasty for 40 years before founding the only foreign ruled dynasty in China

Yuan Dynasty

How did this dynasty govern China?

civil-service system maintained but staffed by non-Chinesestrict social hierarchy developed

1. Mongols

2. Civil Servants (non-Chinese)3. northern Chinese4. southern Chinese

Yuan DynastyWhat belief systems did this

dynasty encourage? Discourage?

Chinese belief systems were not affectedBuddhist monasteries increased under Kublai Khan

Buddhist Monastery

Yuan Dynasty

How did this dynasty affect daily life in China?

bloody wars of conquest led to destruction of farmlandKublai Khan maintained roads and canals, but later Yuan emperors did not

Yuan Dynasty

List two ways this dynasty helped unite China?

kept civil service, but staffed it with outsidersallowed Chinese to continue to practice Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism

Ming Dynasty

Ming Dynasty

How did this dynasty rise to power?

Chinese rebelled against Mongols

rebel leader Hong Wu founded Ming Dynasty

Ming=brilliant

Ming DynastyHow did this dynasty govern

China?

reintroduced the civil-service examemperors often ruled as despots

despot=tyrant or mean ruler

brief time of overseas explorationsZheng He

Ming Dynasty

What belief systems did this dynasty encourage? Discourage?

renewed interest in Confucianismblending of Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism

Ming Dynasty

How did this dynasty affect daily life in China?

rebuilt bridges, canals, roads, and templesheavy taxation and government waste led to peasant rebellion and civil war

Ming Dynasty

List two ways this dynasty helped unite China.

secured borders of China to prevent foreign invasionrebuilt bridges, canals, roads, and temples