periods of time in China
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| 387962445 | Huang He | 2000 BCE - 1500 BCE, bronze, iron, ideographic writing | 0 | |
| 387962446 | Shang | 1500 BCE - 1029 BCE, northern Chinese warlike nomads King ruling over military nobility and bureaucracy Metallurgy, oracle bone writing | 1 | |
| 387962447 | Zhou | 1029 BCE - 201 BCE, start decline in 770 BCE Vassal family created feudalism Mandate of Heaven Standardized Mandarin | 2 | |
| 387962448 | Era of the Warring States | 402-201 BCE, regional aristocrats gain power and disregard central gov't | 3 | |
| 387962449 | Qin | 221-209 BCE, brutal Qin Shihuangdi replaced feudalism w/bureaucracy Great Wall, standardized writing and laws, Legalism | 4 | |
| 387962450 | Han | 202 BCE-220 CE, Xiongnu nomads use Confucian civil service exams Wu Ti expand into central Asia Buddhism spread along Silk Road Daoist Yellow Turbans lead failed protest | 5 | |
| 387962451 | Six Dynasties | 220-589, northern invaders fight for control Three Kingdoms, Jin Dynasty, Period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties | 6 | |
| 387962452 | Sui | 581-618, Yang Jian (Wendi) reunite Yangdi restore Confucian exams and built canals, distribute estates among free peasantry Decline bc Yangdi's unsuccessful to take s Manchuria and n Korea | 7 | |
| 387962453 | Tang | 618-907, tribute system Bureaucrats more important Empress Wu promote Buddhism, Wuzong persecute Buddhism Paper money/credit letters (overseas trade) and urban growth in Chang'an Poetry (Li Bo) and explosive powder | 8 | |
| 387962454 | Five Dynasties | 907-960 | 9 | |
| 387962455 | Song | 969-1126, general Zhao Kuangyin beat s rivals Make scholar-gentry more powerful than aristocracy and Buddhism Neo-Confucianism (male dominance, footbinding) Junks w/magnetic compass Landscape paintings/moveable type Vietnamese Champa rice=population rise Weak military, pay tribute to n Liao and Xi Xia Wang Anshi's Legalist reforms (redistribute land) were reversed | 10 | |
| 387962456 | Southern Song | 1127-1279, Jurchens overthrow Liao, establish Jin, annex Yellow River, making Song move s | 11 | |
| 387962457 | Yuan | 1279-1368, Kubilai Khan conquer Xi Xia, Jin, Song Separate Mongols and Chinese Mongols dominate bureaucracy w/out civil service exams Chabi shows Mongol women kept independence Power to unpopular artisans and merchants Strong navy and urban expansion Playwriting Protect peasants, peasant revolts (White Lotus Society) | 12 | |
| 387962458 | Ming | 1368-1644, Zhu Yuanzhang (Hongwu) push Mongols to Mongolia Revive Tang/Song (neo-Confucianism, strong centralization w/civil service exams, e Asia tribute system) New World crops=population boost Muslim Zheng He Indian Ocean trading expeditions stopped bc bureaucrat opposition Novel Corrupt officials=public works decline | 13 | |
| 387962459 | Qing | 1644-1912, Manchus conquer Forbidden City and stay ethnic elite Bigger gap between rural gentry and peasants European trade soars, compradors (wealthy merchants) Cheating on civil service exams=public works decline Opium Wars,Taiping Rebellion, self-strengthening movement (foreign investment), lose Sino-French War and Sino-Japanese War=spheres of influence, failed Boxer Rebellion to kick out foreigners | 14 | |
| 387962460 | Republic | 1912-1949, Sun Yatsen led 1911 revolution Abandon Confucian system, want Western-style nation-state Hostile to foreigners Guomindang N warlord Yuan Shikai became president; May 4th movement for liberal democracy | 15 | |
| 387962461 | Chinese Civil War | 1945-1949, KMT Chiang Kai-shek become warlord Mao Zedong leads Long March for communists to escape n WWII, unite w/communists to fight Japanese Mao uses guerrilla warfare to force Chiang into Taiwan, creating People's Republic of China | 16 | |
| 387962462 | People's Republic of China | 1949-present, Mao purges elite Mass Line: farming collectives Great Leap Forward: industrialization in communes Cultural Revolution: Red Guard student brigades abuse political rivals Gang of Four imprisoned after his death | 17 | |
| 387962463 | Today | Communist Deng Xiaoping opened up free market Economy expanding Tiananmen Square massacre: troops fire on democratic reform protest | 18 |
