Chinese Dynasty Overview
Shang to Qing
Key Terms
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Shang
Zhou
Qin
Han
Sui
Tang
Song
Yuan
Ming
Qing
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Dynastic Cycle
Dynasty
Mandate of Heaven
Qin Shi Huang Di
Terracotta Warriors
Silk Road
Grand Canal
Mongols
Kublai Khan
Manchu People
Manchuria
Zheng He
Forbidden City
New
Dynasty
Old
Dynasty
Problems
New Dynasty (1)
• New, exciting, fresh
Gets Older
• Not as exciting, corruption
Problems
• War, economics, earthquake
New Dynasty (2)
• New, exciting, fresh
Gets Older
• Not as exciting, corruption
Problems
• War, economics, earthquake
New Dynasty (3)
• New, exciting, fresh
The Popularity Cycle
Someone Claims the Torch of
Popularity
• Justin Timberlake becomes cool and
popular!
Popular Person Reaches the
Peak of Popularity
• JT reached the top!
Popular Person Stops Being That
Cool
JT gets knocked down a peg.
Popular Person Replaced
With a New King of Cool
• Beebs takes the torch of popularity!
Popularity Cycle
• Gets older, people stop liking
• Gets arrested
Popularity Cycle
• Bieber out
• New Person rises
• Dynastic Cycle – explains the rise and
fall of ruling families in Ancient China
Dynasty
• Definition- Chain of family rule in a
country.
• For example:
– During the Shang Dynasty, all rulers were
from the Shang family.
Mandate of Heaven
• Definition - Claim by Chinese emperors
that they had direct authority to rule
from heaven.
• Who gave them the right to rule?
– Approval from a higher power.
Who can claim the “Mandate
of Heaven”?
• What could make a leader lose the “Mandate
of Heaven”, in the people’s eyes?
– When things got bad, the people believed that
the emperor lost the Mandate of Heaven.
• Natural Disasters
• Famine
• Unsuccessful War
Dynastic Cycle:
Explains how rulers gained and lost power in Ancient China.
New
Dynasty
Old
Dynasty
Lose the
“Mandate
of
Heaven”
Problems
Shang (1700 - 1000 BCE)
• First Dynasty
• Silk, Chinese writing
Shang (1700 - 1000 BCE)
Zhou (1027 - 250 BCE)
• Important Philosophies
– Daoism
– Confucianism
– Legalism
Philosophies (Brief)
• Confucianism – Order; hierarchy
• Daoism – inaction; harmony with nature
• Legalism – Brutal enforcement of law
We’ll get back to these later…
Zhou (1000 - 250 BCE)
Qin (221 - 206 BCE)
• Qin Shi Huang Di
– First true emperor of China
– united China
• Adopted Legalism
– Harsh rule
• Built
– first part of the Great Wall
– Terracotta Warriors
Terracotta
Warriors
An army of life-sized statues discovered
at the emperor’s burial site in Xi’an,
China. The army was meant to defend
Qin Shi Huang Di in the afterlife.
Qin(221-206 BCE)
Han (200 BCE - 200 CE)
• New Religion
– Buddhism
• Trade Route
– Silk Road
Han (200 BCE - 200 CE)
Sui (581 - 618 CE)
• Trade Route
– Grand Canal
Sui (581 - 618 CE)
• Grand Canal
– Connected Chang
Jiang to Huang He
– 1,110 miles long
– How could a canal
help a country?
Sui (581 - 618 CE)
Tang (618 - 907 CE)
• High point of Chinese culture
– Art (Pottery)
– Poetry
– Music
– Literature
Tang (618 - 907 CE)
Song (960 - 1279 CE)
• Inventions
– Movable Type
– Compass
– Gunpowder
Song (960 - 1279 CE)
Yuan (1279 - 1368 CE)
• Chinese ruled by Mongols
– Mongols - Raiders from Mongolia. Terrifying warriors
on horseback
Yuan (1279 - 1368 CE)
• Kublai Khan – Mongol leader who conquered
China
• Marco Polo visited China
• Ignored Chinese traditions, replaced officials
with non-Chinese people
Yuan (1279 - 1368 CE)
Ming (1368 - 1644 CE)
• Zheng He
– Great sailor during the
Ming Dynasty (same time
as Columbus)
• Ming Dynasty also built
the Forbidden City
Ming (1368 - 1644 CE)
Columbus
Zheng He
• a
Ming (1368 – 1644)
• Built the Forbidden City
– The Imperial Palace in Beijing where the
Emperor lived for 500 years
Ming (1368 - 1644 CE)
Qing (1644 - 1911 CE)
• Not ruled by Chinese
– Manchus people from Northeast rule
– Manchuria – Northeast China
• Europeans take over (Imperialism)
• Chinese Fight back
• Last Dynasty
Qing (1644 - 1911 CE)
Uprisings
(Ethnicity)
Imperialist
Powers
Downfall
Qing (1644 - 1911 CE)
Chinese Dynasty Song
Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han
Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han
shang, joe, chin, hahn
Sui, Tang, Song
Sui, Tang, Song
sway, tang, soong
Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic
Republic
Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic
you-en, ming, ching,
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong
mou dzu dong