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chinese dynastes
All Dynasties
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| best bronze working civil. in world | Shang |
| human sacrifice | Shang |
| multiple families under dynasty | Shang |
| chung kuo | Shang |
| mandate of heaven | Zhou |
| father-to-son succession | Zhou |
| feudalism | Zhou |
| longest dynasty in Chinese history | Zhou |
| warring states period [475-221 bc] | Zhou |
| Confucius and Laozi | Zhou |
| Shihuangoi "first emperor" of united china | Qin |
| legalism | Qin |
| Great Wall of China | Qin |
| simplified Chinese script | Qin |
| standardized weights/measures | Qin |
| Confusionism primary doctrine | Han |
| civil service exams | Han |
| paper + gunpowder | Han |
| Pax Sinica | Han |
| reunification | Sui |
| begins golden age of china | Tang |
| 2nd greatest dynasty | Tang |
| largest land Chinese empire | Tang |
| literature(diamond sutra) | Tang |
| 1st printed books | Tang |
| love/hate relationship with Buddhism | Tang |
| remarkable advances in technology, culture, economics | song |
| neo-confucianism is primary doctrine | song |
| military weakens | song |
| compass, moveable type, abucas, | song |
| military use of gunpowder | song |
| concentrate more on china and reject everything foreign | song |
| collapses to mongols | song |
| footbinding for women | song |
| Mongol Dynasty | Yaun |
| 1st of 2 foreign dynasties | Yaun |
| Kublia Khun | Yaun |
| extend great canal | Yaun |
| fascinated with Muslim scholars and outside areas which were all present in his court | Yaun |
| mongols bolster position of merchants/artisans | Yaun |
| peasants benefit | Yaun |
| exam system thrown out which makes scholar gentry furious | Yaun |
| state-sponsored oversea trade expeditions | Ming |
| repair and extend great wall | Ming |
| forbidden city built | Ming |
| emperors not seen in public | Ming |
| self imposed isolation | Ming |
| 2nd of 2 foreign dynasties and the last | Qing |
| Manchurians | Qing |
| Canton system established for foreign trade | Qing |
| sought to copy Chinese institutions | Qing |
| rapid population increase due to sweet potato | Qing |
| late 1700= decline | Qing |
| cheating on exam system | Qing |
| Opium for British= silver drain | Qing |
| Opium war [1840s] | Qing |
| Taiping Rebellion[1850s-60s] | Qing |
| Boxer Rebellion[1900] | Qing |
| Anti-foreigner sentiment | Qing |
| Defeat in Sino-Japenese war[1894-95] | Qing |
| estbl. by revolution of 1911/Sun Yat Sen | Chinese Rep. |
| inability to reform for peasants and control warlords leads to creation of the communist party[1921] | Chinese Rep. |
| Japanese invasion of Manchuria[1937] leads to ww2 | Chinese Rep. |
| Mao Zedong great leap forward[1958-1960] | PRC |
| cultural rev.[1965-68] | PRC |