CHINA
Unit One (8000 BCE to 600 BCE)
- Shang (1766-1122 BCE)
o Huang He (Yellow R.)
o Oracle bones
o Bronze metallurgy
- Zhou (1122-256 BCE)
o Mandate of Heaven
o Veneration of ancestors
o Iron metallurgy
Unit Two (600 BCE to 600 CE)
- Era of Warring States (403-221 BCE)
o Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism
- Qin Dynasty (221-207 BCE)
o Imperial Rule
o Beginnings of Great Wall
o Emphasis on Legalism
o Qin Shinuangdi
- Han Dynasty (206 BCE to 220 CE)
o Wu Di
o Civil Service Exams
o Silk Road flourishes
o Tributary System of Trade
o Scholar-Gentry
o Filial piety
o PAPER, COMPASS
Unit Three (600 to 1450)
- Sui Dynasty (589 to 618)
- Tang Dynasty (618 to 907)
o Expands to Tibet and Korea
o Completes Grand Canal
o Supports Buddhism, Daoism and
Confucianism
o Changan
o Silk Road
o Equal Field System
o Empress Wu
o Anti-Buddhism 841 to 845 and
NeoConfucianism
o High taxation and peasant rebellion
- Song Dynasty (960 to 1279)
o Reestablish tribute system
o Military and economic weakness
o Cannons, moveable type printing,
most per capita production
o Magnetic compass
o Power shifts to south
o Gunpowder
o Paper money and flying cash
o Footbinding
- Yuan Dynasty (1279 to 1368)
o Kublai Khan of Mongols
o Civil service not used
o Pax Mongolia – trade flourishes
o Horse relay communications
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Ming Dynasty (1369-1644)
o Confucian education and civil service
exam
o Jesuit missionaries unsuccessful
o Yongle: Forbidden City, Encyclopedia
o Naval expeditions of Zheng He; end in
1433
Unit Four (1450 to 1750)
- Ming Dynasty continues until 1644
- Qing Dynasty (1644 to 1911)
o Nomadic Manchus from north take
over Ming Dynasty
o To preserve own ethnic and cultural
identity:
 Outlaw intermarriage
 Chinese can’t travel to
Manchuria or learn language
 Queue
o Civil service exam
o Patriarchal – footbinding
o Global trade: desire for Ch. goods
(silk, tea) but few imports except
SILVER
o Trade highly regulated
o STABILITY OVER INNOVATION:
technological innovation slowed
Unit Five (1750 to 1900)
- Qing Dynasty (1644 to 1911)
o Rulers more ineffective
o Rapid pop. increase strains
o Wars and rebellions weaken dynasty in
1800s
o Opium War 1839
o Taiping Rebellion (Hong Xiuguan) in
1850s
o Self-Strengthening Movement of
1860s and 1870s
o Hundred Days of Reform
o Boxer Rebellion 1900
Unit Six (1900 to present)
- Sun Yat Sen (Yixian) overthrows Qing in 1911
- Country fragmented into warlord-dominated
zones
- Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai Shek) leads
Republic of China 1924
- Chinese Communist Party
- Cooperation during Japanese attacks
- CCP prevails in 1949; Mao Zedong est. PRC
- Great Leap Forward – late 1950s
- Cultural Revolution – 1960s
- 1976 Deng Xiaoping and Four Modernizations
- Tiananmen Square 1989