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291999985Shang-oracle bones -ruler is a link between Heaven and Earth -elite -overthrown by Zhou
291999986Zhou-Mandate of Heaven -Confucianism -Daoism -yin/yang -warring states period.... Qin unify China
291999987Qin-unify China -Shi Huangdi (burried w/ army of clay soldiers) -Legalism -Xiongnu Confederacy -fall: new emperor is weak, uprisings
291999988Han-led by Liu Bang -Gaozu -"gifts" to Xiongnu Confederacy (policy of appeasement) -Sima Qian -adoption of Confucianism as official ideology -fundamental unit=family -capital: Chang'an....Luoyang -gentry -astrology, watermills, horse collar, paper, roads -fall: weak leadership, costly military
291999989Sui Dynasty-reunifies China -Grand Canal -gov based on Confucianism and Buddhism -fall: overextension, assassination of emperor
291999990Tang Empire-Li Shimin -Mahayana Buddhism -tributary system -opposition to Buddhism -Wu Zhao: female emperor -collapse: rebellions -3 new states emerge
291999991Liao Empire-pastoral traditions -superb horsemen -defeated by Jurchens... Jin Empire
291999992Jin Empire-Jurchens, aided by the Song, defeated the Liao and established their own empire -then they turned on the Song and drove them out of north and central China.... southern Song
291999994Song Empire-many advances in technology, math, iron/steel production -junk, gunpowder -Neo-Confucianism -civil service examinations -movable type -"flying money" -women's status declines....footbinding -.......Southern _______
291999995Yuan Empire-founded by Mongol Khubilai Khan -defeated and unified Tanggut, Jin, Southern Song -effective military techniques -capital: Bejing -cities and commerce prosper -population shrunk under Mongol rule -fall: Zhu Yuanzhang
291999996Ming-founded by Zhu Yuanzhang -cut off relations w/ Central Asia and Middle East -Emperor Yongle -restored trade w/ Middle East -Zheng He expeditions -technological slowdown -population growth -achievement in literature, porcelain
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