Chinese Dynasties

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Chinese Dynasties
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Chinese DynastiesFrom beginning to end

• Shang Dynasty 1766 BCE - 1027 BCE
• Zhou Dynasty 1122 BCE -256 BCE
• Qin Dynasty 221 BCE - 206 BCE
• Han Dynasty 206 BCE - 220AD
• Sui Dynasty 589 AD - 618 AD
• Tang Dynasty 618 AD - 907 AD
• Sung Dynasty 969 AD - 1279 AD
• Yuan Dyansty 1279 AD - 1368 AD
• Ming Dynasty 1368 AD - 1644 AD
• Manchu or Qing Dynasty 1644 AD - 1912 AD
• 1912 1949 Nationalism and Communism
• 1949 present Communism

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Shang Dynasty 1766 BCE - 1027 BCE

• First organised river society, introduced writing
  on oracles bones, local trade, ancestor worship,
  bronze age, Huang He river

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Chou Dynasty 1122 BCE -256 BCE

• Feudal regional China, Warring period, 100
  Schools of Philosophy 3 new philsophies
  (legalism, Taoism, Confucianism) iron age

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Chin Dynasty 221 BCE - 206 BCE

• Shi Huang di, unified China using legalism, cruel
  to Confucians, Great Wall, Terra Cotta army,
  standardized money, weights, roads and
  centralized power

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Han Dynasty 206 BCE - 220AD

• Classical Age of China, inventions (paper)
  Confucian civil servie begins, wealthy traders,
  extend Great Wall, Silk Road, excellent art,
  public school conquered by Huns

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Sui Dynasty 589 AD - 618 AD

• after 300 years of regional rule in China,
• Re-unite a smaller China, Grand Canal, graineries
  to feed the poor, legalist and very much like the
  Chin

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Tang Dynasty 618 AD - 907 AD

• Confucian, conquer more territory in China and
  Korea, influence in Japan, inventions (printing
  press, gunpower), landscape painting, Buddhist
  increase in numbers

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Song Dynasty 969 AD - 1279 AD

• Merchant society, urban life increases, rich,
  Confucian and Buddhist, lots of trade along Silk
  Road, crushed by Mongols

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Yuan Dyansty 1279 AD - 1368 AD

• Mongols led by Kublai Khan, use Chinese system of
  govt with foreign rulers, 40 million Chinese
  killed, Confucians were persecuted but they are
  able to write drama and opera, trade increases
  along Silk Road, Taoism grows because the Mongols
  like it

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Ming Dynasty 1368 AD - 1644 AD

• Re-take China from Mongols, tons of trade with
  Asia, some with Europe in porcelain, for silver
  and tea, Neo Confucians, re-instate the Civil
  service exam, great Navy Zheng He, extend the
  Great Wall, the Manchu northern tribes conquer
  them

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Manchu or Qing Dynasty 1644 AD - 1912 AD

• Foreign conquerors of China oppressed the native
  Han Chinese trade with Europeans eventually
  leads to conflict in the Opium Wars and then to
  the foreign occupation of coastal cities of
  China. Rebellions like the Taiping and Lotus
  Flower Rebellions as well as foreign conflict and
  govt corruption led to its downfall

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Nationalism and Communism (1911-1949)

• After the fall of the Qing Empire, nationalists
  and communists in China alternated between
  fighting for power in China and uniting to fight
  against Japanese invasions of China. WWII
  brought this era to an end when the Communists
  under Mao Tse-Dong defeated the nationalists and
  took over China

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Chinese Communist Republic

• Started by Mao, the Communist state controls
  China as a totalitarian state. The Great Leap
  Forward and the Cultural Revolution helped
  modernize China but also caused the deaths of
  tens of millions of Chinese peasants and
  intellectual leaders. The Massacre in Tiananmen
  Square in 1989 started the economic freedom of
  China but did not change the political situation.