Chinese Dynasty Notes
Dynastic Rule in China
A.D. 589-1644
Dynastic Rule
How did this
dynasty rise to
power?
Sui
Tang
Song
Yuan
Ming
How did this dynasty
govern China?
in China A.D. 589-1644
What belief
systems did this
dynasty
encourage?
How did this
dynasty affect
daily life in
China?
List two ways
this dynasty
helped unite
China?
Sui Dynasty
Sui Dynasty
How did this dynasty rise to power?
General Yang Jian conquered several areas
and unified China for the first time in 400
years
Yang Jian made himself emperor and
founded Sui Dynasty
Yang Jian changed his name to Wen Di
Sui Dynasty
How did this Dynasty govern China?
Wen Di and Yang Di were harsh rulers
forced peasants to work in army and build
public works projects
Sui Dynasty
What belief systems did this dynasty
encourage? Discourage?
Wen Di was Buddhist
encouraged Confucianism, Daoism and
Buddhism
Sui Dynasty
How did this dynasty affect daily life
in China?
Grand Canal promoted trade
rebuilding of the Great Wall provided security
Sui Dynasty
List two ways this dynasty helped
unite China?
public work projects
Grand Canal, Great Wall
extended military control
Tang Dynasty
Tang Dynasty
How did this dynasty rise to
power?
Taizong helped his father to
found the Tang Dynasty by
rebelling against the Sui
Tang Dynasty
How did this dynasty govern China?
Wu Zhao (only female ruler) helped to
enlarge the empire
Empress Wu Zhao
Tang Dynasty
How did this dynasty govern China?
Wu Zhao (only female ruler) helped to
enlarge the empire
bureaucracy
government made up of departments each with its
own area
scholar-officials used Confucian ideas to help
them serve the government
Tang Dynasty
What belief systems did this
dynasty encourage? Discourage?
At first Confucianism, Buddhism and
Daoism were encouraged
Later Buddhism was discouraged
Emperor Wu Zong ordered the destruction of
4,600 Buddhist monasteries
At first…
then…
destruction of Buddhist
temples
Tang Dynasty
How did this dynasty affect daily life in
China?
scholar class became new ruling elite
land reform gave some peasants a chance to
gain wealth
golden age for poetry and art
Tang Dynasty
List two ways this dynasty helped
unite China.
emperors directly controlled army
agricultural reforms benefited both the
government and commoners
Song Dynasty
Song Dynasty
How did this
dynasty rise to
power?
Tai Zu emerged
after 50 years of
civil war to found
the Song dynasty
Song Dynasty
How did this dynasty govern
China?
Mongolians threatened China’s northern
border for 200 years
Song royal family forced to move capital of
empire to southern China
northern China was under foreign rule
scholar-officials came from southern
Chinese families
scholar-officials chosen by results from civil
service exam
Song Dynasty
What belief systems did this dynasty
encourage? Discourage?
(Zen) Buddhism became popular in China
and East Asia
Song Dynasty
How did this dynasty affect daily life
in China?
power of merchant rose as trade increased
new form of rice allowed farmers to double
their production
Song Dynasty
List two ways this dynasty helped
unite China.
move center of Chinese culture from the
north to the south
used meritocracy to make government
efficient and reliable
meritocracy=most qualified people get the job
Advances under the Tang and Song
discovery of tea
manufacture of
paper
wood-block printing
magnetic compass
gunpowder
Daily Opener 12/6
1. How many Khanates was
the Mongol Empire divided
into?
2. What is the name of the
trade routes that connected
Europe with China?
Yuan Dynasty
Mongols
Yuan Dynasty
How did this
dynasty rise to
power?
dynasty founded by
Kublai Khan
Kublai fought Song
Dynasty for 40 years
before founding the
only foreign ruled
dynasty in China
Yuan Dynasty
How did this dynasty govern
China?
civil-service system maintained but staffed
by non-Chinese
strict social hierarchy developed
1. Mongols
2. Civil Servants (non-Chinese)
3. northern Chinese
4. southern Chinese
Yuan Dynasty
What belief systems did this
dynasty encourage?
Discourage?
Chinese belief systems were not affected
Buddhist monasteries increased under
Kublai Khan
Buddhist Monastery
Yuan Dynasty
How did this dynasty affect daily life in
China?
bloody wars of conquest led to destruction
of farmland
Kublai Khan maintained roads and canals,
but later Yuan emperors did not
Yuan Dynasty
List two ways this dynasty helped
unite China?
kept civil service, but staffed it with
outsiders
allowed Chinese to continue to practice
Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism
Ming Dynasty
Ming Dynasty
How did this
dynasty rise to
power?
Chinese rebelled
against Mongols
rebel leader Hong
Wu founded Ming
Dynasty
Ming=brilliant
Ming Dynasty
How did this dynasty govern
China?
reintroduced the civil-service exam
emperors often ruled as despots
despot=tyrant or mean ruler
brief time of overseas explorations
Zheng He
Ming Dynasty
What belief systems did this
dynasty encourage?
Discourage?
renewed interest in Confucianism
blending of Confucianism, Daoism and
Buddhism
Ming Dynasty
How did this dynasty affect daily life
in China?
rebuilt bridges, canals, roads, and temples
heavy taxation and government waste led to
peasant rebellion and civil war
Ming Dynasty
List two ways this dynasty helped
unite China.
secured borders of China to prevent
foreign invasion
rebuilt bridges, canals, roads, and temples