Chinese Dynasty Review Flashcards

318308431	Xia	Civilization centered around East Yellow River	0
318308432	Xia	Silk worms were cultivated for the first time	1
318308433	Xia	Loose collection of independent city-states	2
318308434	Xia	Contemporary of Mesopotamia, Indus River Valley, and Ancient Egypt	3
318308435	Xia	Mastery of bronze is started	4
318308436	Shang	Same time as Vedic Age in India	5
318308437	Shang	1st official dynasty	6
318308438	Shang	1st official Chinese dynasty	7
318308439	Shang	7-8 different ruling families - each creates a new capital	8
318308440	Shang	Oracles bones are used	9
318308441	Shang	Time when kings are viewed as intermediary between heaven and earth	10
318308442	Shang	Veneration of ancestors begins	11
318308443	Zhou	Longest dynasty	12
318308444	Zhou	Dynasty is feudalistic - local rulers pledge loyalty to emperors	13
318308445	Zhou	Introduction of written law	14
318308446	Zhou	Currency is created (iron)	15
318308447	Zhou	100 Schools Era takes place at this time (Confucius, Daoism, Legalism)	16
318308448	Zhou	Concept of Mandate of Heaven is first introduced	17
318308449	Qin	2nd shortest dynasty	18
318308450	Qin	China becomes unified for the first time with a central government	19
318308451	Qin	Shi Huangdi unifies China	20
318308452	Qin	Philosophy = legalism	21
318308453	Qin	Organized bureaucracy and standard written legal code are introduced	22
318308454	Qin	Weights and measures are first standardized	23
318308455	Qin	Great Wall is built/Terra Cotta warriors	24
318308456	Han	Height of ancient world	25
318308457	Han	Same time as pax romana	26
318308458	Han	Confucianism is greatly promoted	27
318308459	Han	CSE is important - based on Confucian values	28
318308460	Han	Paper is introduced	29
318308461	Han	Silk Roads connect China to Mediterranean world	30
318308462	Han	People of China get their ethnic name from this	31
318308463	Han	Largest dynasty of 4 predecessors (Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han)	32
318308464	Han	filial piety becomes prevalent	33
318308465	Han	People study the Analects	34
318308466	Sui	Shortest dynasty	35
318308467	Sui	Father/son duo rule	36
318308468	Sui	Grand Canal is built (transports food to the people)	37
318308469	Sui	There is no CSE	38
318308470	Sui	Tried to invade Korea, but failed	39
318308471	Tang	Largest territorial dynasty	40
318308472	Tang	"Hyper-empire": a time when a society is more powerful than any other society at the time	41
318308473	Tang	CSE is reintroduced with 3-tier system	42
318308474	Tang	Scholar gentry starts to replace landed aristocracy	43
318308475	Tang	Block printing introduced (600 years before Europe)	44
318308476	Tang	Poetry is very important (Artist Li Bo)	45
318308477	Tang	1st book is printed - "Diamond Sutra" - Buddhist text	46
318308478	Tang	Buddhism is huge, but by the end of the dynasty it is viewed as a threat	47
318308479	Tang	Introduction of porcelain	48
318308480	Tang	Empress Wu ruled at this time - only female Emperor	49
318308481	Tang	foot-binding starts, but it is limited	50
318308482	Song	CSE modified to add Chinese literature	51
318308483	Song	Porcelain is blue and white	52
318308484	Song	Gunpowder is invented	53
318308485	Song	Time of mini Ice Age	54
318308486	Song	Capital moved to the South	55
318308487	Song	Economic growth as maritime trade is introduced	56
318308488	Song	Foot-binding becomes widespread	57
318308489	Song	Neo-Confucianism - reinterpretation of old texts: tradition and morality, introspection, honoring past	58
318308490	Song	Gov't has too many people and becomes corrupt	59
318308491	Yuan	Controlled by Mongols (they control all of Asia)	60
318308492	Yuan	Kublai Khan claims Mandate of Heaven	61
318308493	Yuan	Chinese had power only at local level	62
318308494	Yuan	Marco Polo is part of the court - brings knowledge to Europeans of gunpoweder, porcelain, etc.	63
318308495	Yuan	Pax Mongolica - 100 years of Mongol peace	64
318308496	Yuan	Silk Roads are secure and safe for China	65
318308497	Yuan	Plague travels to Europe through Silk Roads	66
318308498	Yuan	No CSE at this time (foreign ruler)	67
318308499	Yuan	First Forbidden City is built in Beijing (not the Forbidden City of today)	68
318308500	Yuan	Failed invasion of Japan due to Kamikaze winds	69
318308501	Ming	CSE reintroduced (after Mongols)	70
318308502	Ming	Yongle is most important emperor - he hates Mongols; destroys and rebuilds Forbidden City	71
318308503	Ming	Maritime trade c. 1405 - Zheng He goes on 7 expeditions	72
318308504	Ming	Travel to India and Africa, then scholar gentry closes doors of China	73
318308505	Ming	At time, China had most advanced navy	74
318308506	Ming	Great Wall is finished	75
318308507	Ming	Foreigners allowed in Canton and Macao	76
318308508	Ming	Cut off from Renaissance and Scientific Revolution!	77
318308509	Qing	2nd Dynasty to be ruled by a foreign power	78
318308510	Qing	Ruled by Manchus	79
318308511	Qing	1800 - population is 300 million - due to food from Columbian exchange	80
318308512	Qing	Most important emperor ever - Kang Xi	81
318308513	Qing	Emperor Qianlong rebuffs British ambassador McCartney	82
318308514	Qing	British introduce opium - Opium Wars - British win and get Hong Kong	83