Too Many Chinese Dynasties

By albertotaepaenga2
  • 2100 BCE

    Xia Dynasty

    Founder was Yu credited with having engineered the draining of the waters of a great flood.
    First Imperial Dynasty in China.
    First government to emerge in ancient China.
    Monarchy ruled by a king.
    Invented bronze casting.
    Xia was discovered by Classic Of History.
    People lived through mainly agriculture farmers.
    www.ancient.ei/xia_dynasty
  • 1600 BCE

    Shang Dynasty

    Leader Tang
  • 1046 BCE

    Zhou

    The longest lasting chinese dynasty.
    The zhou people were not invaders;they were Chinese-speaker people descendant from the longshan neolithic culture.
    The king of the zhou was king wen.
    Iron was introduced to China.
    Zhou introduced mandate of heaven to China
    Emperor in charge
    Military improved

    The first large scale projects of hydraulic engineering were executed.
    The written script evolved into its almost modern form
    Most famous philosophers belong to the Zhou dynasty
  • 618 BCE

    Tang

    The tang dynasty is the most influential empire of China civilization.China peak of its civilization and became the center of trade in the east. Emperor Li Yuan.the greatest emperor was taizong of the tang. The golden age for literature and art. Invented gun powder. Toliet paper was invented during this time.
  • 581 BCE

    Sui

    It was a short,intense dynasty, with great conquest and achievements. Emperors were wen(founder of the sui) and yang.
    Wen conquered and crushed an army for one of their province. They built granary ex which provided them with a stable source of cheap food during the famine years. The sui made the grand canal one of their biggest accomplishments
  • 221 BCE

    Qin

    Close ally with the zhou and had marriage relations with their class ruling. Qin had great power. They had advantage because of their location (modern day Shanxi)
    Shang yang was the most talented renovated policies of the government focus on the greater.
    Burned books because stupid people were easy to control.
    Qin shi huang first emperor of the Qin dynasty
  • 206

    Han

    With minor interruptions they lasted four centuries. Consider the golden age in Chinese history. The Era of peace and prosperity and allowed China to expand to major world power. Han Gaozu leader. He many educated man help run the empire. They invented paper allowed the government to keep records easy. Advance of medicine . The silk road was established. Buddhism first came to China during this time.
  • 220

    Six dynasties period

    The name is derived from the six successive dynasties of the south China that had their capitals at the Jianye. North was ruled by a succession of kingdoms. Buddhism was popular became the a great religion. Wasn't under one leader. History of poetry description of love and beauty.
  • Period: 1279 to 1368

    Yuan Dynasty

    The reign of the mongol empire. Capital was present day Beijing. Started with Genghis Khan's rule of the area of China in 1206. renamed Yuan in 1271, proceeded to set up Chinese style administration. Centralized Bureaucracy. New developments in ceramics. Music and dancing was bigger in Yuan dynasty. The Mongols were never totally Sinicized, which proved to be an important factor in their downfall.
  • Period: 1368 to

    Ming Dynasty

    China exerted immense cultural and political influence on East Asia and the Turks to the west. Founded by Zhu Yuanzhang. Later reigned title of Hongwu. Became one of the most stable dynasty. Governmental structure established by Ming was continued by later dynasties. The Ming incorporated the Song dynasty’s policy of relying on the literati in managing state affairs. Portion of the Great Wall of China built during Ming period.
  • Period: to

    Qing Dynasty

    reign of manchus, Capital is Beijing. Continued economic developments of late Ming. Leading to prosperity. Increase in population.
  • Period: to

    Republic Period

    Weak Central Government following collapse of dynastic system. Influence shown by science and democracy. Chinese Nationalists fled to Taiwan after defeat by Communists in 1949.
  • Period: to

    People's republic of China

    Very communistic government. Economic reform in 1978. The Great Leap Forward, a large-scale economic and social reform project, resulted in an estimated 45 million deaths between 1958 and 1961, mostly from starvation. 1966, Mao and his allies launched the Cultural Revolution, sparking a decade of political recrimination and social upheaval which lasted until Mao's death in 1976.