1. CHINA
Ch. 12, sec. 1 & 2

2. Tang Dynasty (618-907)
 Unified China
 Tang Taizong- emperor
 Greatly admired
 Reformed government
 Military leader
 Historian
 Established tributary states
 Vietnam, Tibet, Korea
 Forced to recognize Chinese supremacy and pay
tribute

3. Song Dynasty (960-1279)
 Weak army
 Strong wealth and culture
 Expanded farming- surplus of food!
 Shipped grain on the Grand Canal
 Lots of trade
Remember the porcelain found in
East Africa? That was from the
Song Dynasty!

4. Chinese Society
 Gentry- land owning nobles
 Peasantry- worked in the fields
 Merchants- bottom social class of society
 But they did have social mobility!
 Women
 Idealpicture of beauty
 Foot binding
 White face, big hair

5. Culture
 Painting
 Nature
 Architecture
 Pagoda
 Porcelain
 Writing
 Focus on poetry

6. Mongol Empire
 Mongols invade China in
the 1200s
 Ghengis Khan
 “universalruler”
 Conquered lots of land
 Pacific Ocean to eastern
Europe
 Fierce conquerors,
peaceful rulers
 Brought trade with Europe

7. Mongol Empire

8. Mongol Rule
 Kublai Khan
 Ghengis’ grandson
 Fully captured all of China
 Marco Polo
 European traveller
 Worked in Kublai Khan’s palace
 Described the riches of China

9. Ming Dynasty
 Means brilliant
 Founded in 1368 by a peasant
leader, Zhu Yuanzhang
 Lead a rebel army to defeat the
Mongols after Kublai Khan’s
death
 Restored civil service system
 Testto become govt official
 Prevented corruption

10. Economy and Culture
 Huge rice crops in the
Chang River Valley
 Created terraces- cut
steps into hills
 Revival of arts and
literature
 First detective stories
 Famous novel: The Water
Margin
 Famous blue and white
porcelain china

11. Chinese Fleet Sails the Seas-
p. 195
 Zheng He