Chinese Dynasties

Question 1

ZHOU (1046 - 256 BCE)

Answer 1

mandate of heaven, confucianism (his writings = analects), legalism, daoism, buddhism, trade routes

Question 2

QIN (221 - 206 BCE)

Answer 2

Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi + legalism, started construction of Great Wall, standardization of weights + coins + roads + carts - improved trade

Question 3

HAN (206 BCE - 220 CE)

Answer 3

confucianism revived, civil service exam, contemporaries = romans (even the same size), secrets of silk led to golden age of silk road, watermills + crossbows + compass + ox-drawn plow + paper + 365.5 day calendar, capital = Xi’an

Question 4

SUI (581 - 618 CE)

Answer 4

grand canal,reuniofied China

Question 5

TANG (618 - 906 CE)

Answer 5

equal field system, gunpowder, moveanle type, golden age, Xi’an, nonconfucianism, silk + paper knowledge stolen so porcelain replaces it, footbinding, perfect the civil service exam

Question 6

SONG (960 - 1279 CE)

Answer 6

invented junk ships, harvested champa rice 2x a year, magnetic compass + astrolabe + steel post rudder, footbinding, clocks, flying money, guns + bombs made out of gunpowder, vigorous silk road + indian ocean trade, 115 million people, capitalmoves to coast = Yangzhou

Question 7

YUAN (1279 - 1368 CE)

Answer 7

founded by Kublai Khan, tolerable of other religions + open door policy, supersafe silkroad + last 150 yrs of it, love land-based trade because they taxed it heavily

Question 8

MING (1368 - 1644 CE)

Answer 8

voyages of Zheng He, moved capital to Beijing, gunpowder empires (more or less isolated), turbulent time period (famine, climate issues), complete the great wall + grand canal

Question 9

QING (1644 - 1912 CE)

Answer 9

manchurian rulers, 1736-1795 = golden age under emperor QIN Lang (taxes cancelled), opium wars + european arrival, giving Hong Kong to the British, 1907 = revolution of Puyi (last Chinese emperor)