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Sui, Tang and Song China
World History 1000bce-1450ce Overview
c. 10,000 BCE – 600CE – Agricultural Revolution– Cities– Civilization– Major Religions
600 CE –1450– Islam and Muslim Dynasties– South American Dynasties– European Feudalism– World trade increases– Chinese grows in wealth and sophistication
• Mongols build the greatest empire in land size and population ever by conquering Asia, India and part of Europe
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Early Chinese Dynasties
Shang• Shang Dynasty 1800-1076
BC – Huang He river valley, – Agricultural Revolution, – Oracle bones and literacy begins– Bronze Age, – Father led family units– Bronze Age
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Chou 1076-221 BC (Jo)
• Iron used for weapons and farming,
• regional feudal states not a united state
• Last 400yrs - warring states which led
• Confucianism, Taoism and Legalism all come out of the 100 Schools Movement trying to bring stability to China
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Ch’in Dynasty 221 -206 BCE– Shi Huangdi (1st emperor)– Legalist philosophy helped
centralize and unite China– standardized coinage, roads
and bureaucracy– Censorship of Confucianism
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Han Dynasty 200BCE- 200CE• classical Chinese era• Confucian based
society returns after legalist Ch’in dynasty
• Paper & porcelain invented
• Most prosperous Chinese culture to this point
• Confucian Civil Service Exams begin
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Huns invade
Huns come anddestroy the Hanafter their govtBecomescorrupt and thepoor revoltbecause theyare not beingwell served bythe govt
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Dynasties of the North and South
• After the Hun invasion a lengthy period of disunity and internal strife lasted until about 500
• Small states fight each other constantly• Confucianism declines because the court was
declining• Buddhism flourished because Buddhism's
promise of an afterlife appealed to poor• scholar-gentry replaced by militarized
aristocracy
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End Review