The Great Chinese Empire : Documentary on the Empire of Ancient China Flashcards
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Chinese
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- spread over an area 1/3 larger than the US but had great turmoil
- the Warring State
- 3 century BC one kingdom emerged as most powerful, Qin
- access to silk road
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Qin
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- military advances, horses and strategy of waging war
- wanted to take over all of China, but had trouble with food for his army
- Li Bing (under his guidance, created a new waterway)
- heat the rocks through controlled fire and then to water, getting rid of part of the mountain
- 238 BC, war against Qu that lasted for 15 years (China was unified)
- Shi Huangdi, the first emperor (3 years after his death, the empire fell apart)
- The Great Wall of China built
- by 210 BC the wall stretched 3,000 miles
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terracotta warriors
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- collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China.
- form of funerary art buried with the emperor (Shi Huangdi) in 210-209 BCE and whose purpose was to protect the emperor in his afterlife
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Liu Bing
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- he launched Han dynasty which would last for 4 centuries
- extended the Great Wall to the west even more and added garrisons
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Sui
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- Yang Di
- channeled energy within and strengthened empire from the inside
- Yangtze and the Yellow Rive (1,000 miles apart)
- connected north and south
- Yang Di killed by his own generals
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Ming
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- admiral Zheng He
- extend the maritime and commercial influence of China throughout the regions bordering the Indian Ocean
- commanded seven naval expeditions almost a century before the Portuguese reached India by sailing around the southern tip of Africa.