Chinese Dynasties 2100 BCE Present Chinese Dynasties Xia
Chinese Dynasties 2100 BCE- Present
Chinese Dynasties • Xia (Hsia) Dynasty • 2100 – 1600 BCE • Archeological evidence that a pervious dynasty existed
Chinese Dynasties • • • Shang Dynasty 1600 – 1050 BCE Writing system Walled Cities Bronze technology Horse drawn chariots
Chinese Dynasties • Western Zhou • 1046 -771 BCE • • • Eastern Zhou 771 -256 BCE Spring & Autumn Period Confucius Feudalism
Chinese Dynasties • Warring States Period • 475 -221 BCE
Chinese Dynasties • • • Qin (Ch’in)Dynasty 221 -206 BCE Capital Chang’an (Xi’an) Moved everyone to capital city Harsh Rules Standard weights and measures
Chinese Dynasties • • • Han Dynasty 206 BCE- 220 CE Reached Korea & Vietnam Records of the Historian completed Confucianism – Civil Exams
Period of Disunity • Six Dynasties • 220 -589 CE • Empire fragmented – North dominated by invaders from borders, steppes – South ruled by successive “Chinese” dynasties – Buddhism spread
Chinese Dynasties • Sui (Sway) • 581 -618 • China Reunified
Chinese Dynasties • Tang • 618 -906 CE • Height of Buddhism in China till repressed in 845. • Active territorial expansion
Chinese Dynasties • • • Song(Sung) 960 -1279 Northern 960 -1127 Monetization Maritime Trade Inventions – Paper – Fireworks Southern 1127 -1279
Chinese Dynasties • • Yuan – Mongol 1279 -1368 Beijing was made the capital Dramas – Story of the Western Wing
Chinese Dynasties • • • Ming 1368 - 1644 Authoritarian political culture Isolation culture after exploration Zheng He – explorer traveled to India, Africa
Chinese Dynasties • Qing (Ching) - Manchu
Chinese Dynasties • Republic – Republic of China
Chinese Dynasties • Peoples Republic of China • Communist China led by Mao Zedong (Tse. Tung older spelling)
Chinese Dynasty Song • • • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=y. Fye. Lv. Ef. ZEA The Chinese Dynasties: Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han Sui, Tang, Song Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic Mao Ze Dong Deng Sho Peng
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