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  • + RohanV2 RohanV2 5 months ago
    Well then were the Xia dynasty a legendary one.. I heard that Da yu was the first BIG guy of this dynasty!! and weren’t the tang one to open the Silk road??? Ok.. though i only doubt that much though others are just too good,... I mean excellent...

    THANKS :D
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    oh my god you have no idea how helpful this was!!!!!! thanks so much!
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    thank you so much!!! this is very helpful
  • + guest4c821a6 guest4c821a6 6 months ago
    very very helpful fab job
  • + singer6irl singer6irl 3 years ago
    Very helpful! Thanks!

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  1. Chinese Dynasty Overview Shang to Qing AP World History
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  3. Shang (1700 - 1027 BCE)
    • First recorded Dynasty (Xia - no written records)
    • Ruled by aristocracy
    • First Chinese cities, center of court life
    • Developed writing, worked with bronze, created silk
    • Honored ancestors, used oracle bones
    • Shang tyrant emperor overthrown
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  5. Zhou (1027 - 250 BCE)
    • Longest lasting Chinese Dynasty
    • Beginning of Mandate of Heaven
    • Early: Feudal system, lords had total authority
    • Later: City-states
    • Built roads, expanded trade, made agricultural advancements
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  7. Zhou (1027 - 250 BCE)
    • Taoism and Confucianism introduced
    • Decline: Inefficient rulers can’t control fighting between city-states
    • Period of Warring States
  8. Qin (221 - 207 BCE)
    • Qin She Huanshi - only emperor
    • Adopted Legalism
    • Developed highly centralized gov’t with bureaucratic administration
    • Standardized currency, language, measurements, laws
    • Built first Great Wall
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  10. Qin (221 - 207 BCE)
    • Brutal ruler - executed dissenters, burned books
    • Many enemies, dynasty falls after his death
  11. Han (202 BCE - 221 CE)
    • Legalism replaced by Confucianism
    • Introduced civil service examination (scholar gentry)
    • Silk Roads developed, opens trade
  12. Han (202 BCE - 221 CE)
    • Buddhism introduced, paper invented
    • Great increase in population, land holdings
    • Decline
    • Nomadic raiders
    • Corruption, weak leaders
    • Collapse of bureaucracy
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  14. 221 - 581 (CE)
    • Warlords control china - no centralized gov’t
    • Non-Chinese nomads control much of China
    • Buddhism becomes popular - Confucianism failed
  15. Sui (581 - 618 CE)
    • Completed Grand Canal
    • High taxes, forced labor
    • Military failures (couldn’t conquer Korea)
    • Assassination ends dynasty
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  17. Tang (618 - 907 CE)
    • High point of Chinese culture
    • Rebuilt bureaucracy
      • Examination system
      • Confucian education
      • Limited social mobility
    • Buddhism supported, then oppressed
    • Invention of movable print, porcelain, gun powder
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  19. Tang (618 - 907 CE)
    • Wu Zetian - Only Empress in Chinese history
    • Decline
    • Weak emperors, nomadic incursions, economic difficulties
    • Warlords take control
  20. Song (969 - 1279 CE)
    • Large centralized bureaucracy (Neo-Confucian)
    • Mercantile class grows, increased trade
    • Magnetic compass, growing sea power
    • Weak military
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  23. Yuan (1279 - 1368 CE)
    • Mongol Khubilai Khan conquers China
    • Economic stability and prosperity
    • China more open to trade and travel (Marco Polo)
    • Ignored Chinese traditions, replaced bureaucrats with non-Chinese
    • Unsuccessful attacks on Japan, corruption weakens dynasty
    • Peasant rebellion ends Yuan
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  25. Ming (1368 - 1644 CE)
    • Tried to erase all signs of Mongols
    • Reinstated civil service, Confucian scholars
    • Eunuchs play growing role (Zheng He) - resented by scholar gentry
    • Rebuilt and extended Great Wall
    • Collapsed after famines and riots
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  27. Qing (1644 - 1911 CE)
    • Manchus (from Manchuria) move south
    • Take Korea, Japan, then China
    • Manchus hold top posts, but relied upon scholar gentry
    • “ Son of Heaven” concept emphasized
    • Would be final Chinese Dynasty
    • Eventually would be weakened by European / American interventions
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  29. Chinese Dynasty Song
    • Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han shang, joe, chin, hahn
    • Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han
    • Sui, Tang, Song sway, tang, soong
    • Sui, Tang, Song
    • Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic yooan, ming, ching, Republic
    • Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic
    • Mao Zedong mou dzu dong
    • Mao Zedong

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