Changes in 19th Century Japan Flashcards
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Cathy Makes Music Through Xylophone
Regions of the Qing Empire: Manchuria, Central China, Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet
They collect your taxes, but corrupt easily, a diploma is a necessity, they are the…
Gentry: A social elite in local cities and provinces that collected taxes. They were prone to corruption and led to many the degradation of the Bao-Lan system.
The highest is Jin shi, a needed for high officials, the lowest is sheng yuan, the most basic necessity, if you fail your considered useless, worthless, a sham, every Chinese boy must study for…
The Civil Service Exam
1644, They came from the north, they had overthrew the Ming, the Manchu their called then formed…
The Qing Dynasty
Don’t Lick Crap
Three ways of thinking: Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism
Ten houses into one JIa, ten jia to bao, improved taxation the system of…
Pao-Lan
Amazing Profits Mask Social Standing
Confucian hierarchy: Shi/Shih(Officials, aristocrats, warriors…) Peasants, Artisans, Merchants(lowest)
An age of reform, crushed not by a queen, but a widow of an emperor …
Empress Dowager Cixi: A title given to the widow of a queen, but means they have the same powers of an emperor.
Zebras Zooming Zipping Gallantly Like Hares Prancing Gracefully
Zuo Zongtang, Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, Li Hongzhang, Prince Gong: Major players that helped to defend against the Taiping Rebellion.
Attempted reform with education plans, and railroads, but Dowager Cixi refused, and wanted his head, by the time China was open, he was to old to do a thing, the reformer…
Yung Wing
