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206
Qin Dynasty
221 - 206 BC -
Period: 206 to 220
Han Dynasty
- 206 BC - 220 AD
- Time of inventions and advances
- Called the "Era of Disunity"
- Helped to rebuild the Great wall and expand westward, while establishing an age of technological innovation.
- Fell due to increasing problems of population, rivalries, and other political institutions
- Believed a good ruler ruled for a long time.
- Invented paper, the compass, porcelain, the wheelbarrow, and the seismograph during this time.
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Period: 206 to 221
Qin Dynasty
- From 221 BC - 206 BC
- Confucianism and Legalism
- Standardized law, weights, measurements, money, scholarship
- Started building the Great Wall
- Terracotta warriors were made during this period
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220
Han Dynasty
206 BC - 220 AD -
Period: Nov 10, 1271 to Nov 10, 1368
Mongolian Yuan Dynasty
- Mongols helped fund many public projects
- Roads and irrigation were reorganized and rebuilt
- trade relations established
- Grand canal renewed Court Roles
- specific roles on where people sit around the emperor
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Jan 1, 1280
Mongol (Yuan) Dynasty
1280 - 1368 -
Period: Nov 10, 1368 to
Ming Dynasty
- Ming ruled
- capital started as Nanjing and later changed to Beijing
- this dynasty traded in India, Japan, and the Persian Gulf
- Downfall was because of the long wars with the Mongols and attacks on Korea by the Japanese which weakened the Ming Dynasty
- Manchus invaded and captured China, overthrowing the Ming Dynasty
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Jan 1, 1386
Ming Dynasty
1386 - 1664 -
Qing Dynasty
1644 - 1912 -
Period: to
Manchu/Qing Dynasty
- Conflict between Qing Dynasty
- leader issued a document and began to rebel against the Ming Dynasty
- After taking over the Ming, the Qing identified the state as China
- Han people prohibited from migrating into Manchu homeland
- One of the largest empires in history
- Protected themselves from Russia with the Treaty of Nerchinsk
- Girl had a som with the Emperor, after the emperor died she took the title of an Empress and ruled through her son
- Taiping Rebellion, Boxer Rebellion
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Opium Wars
1839 - 1842
- war was fought because of unfair trade between china and Britain
- began to auction opium grown on its plantations in India
- opium was transported to the China coast and sold to Chinese middlemen who retailed the drug inside China
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Taiping Rebellion
1850 - 1864
- civil war against Manchu Qing Dynasty
- Hong Xiuquan believed he was the song of Jesus, and tried to rebel against the dynasty
- the Qing government crushed the rebellion with the aid of French and British forces -
Boxer Rebellion
1898 - 1900
- the "boxers", opposition to foreign imperialism and Christianity
- resulted in an allied victory -
Sui/Tang Dynasty
581 - 907 -
Song Dynasty
960 - 1280 -
Period: to Nov 10, 1279
Song Dynasty
- Northern invadors terminated the previous dynasty, and during this time CHina divided into 5 Nothern and 10 Southern Dynasties
- created the idea of a "universal man"
- Sought knowledge and philosophical answers
- Neo-Confucianism: Confucian with Taoism and Buddism
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Period: to
Sui/Tang Dynasty
- Sui (581-618)
- Tang (618- 907)
- Reconstructed Great Wall
- Empire Wendi took throne by force
- Built system of canals and rivers
