Flashcards: Han dynasty

Chang'an ([ʈʂʰǎŋ.án] ; simplified Chinese: 长安; traditional Chinese: 長安) is an ancient capital of more than ten dynasties in Chinese history, today known as Xi'an.

The Han dynasty (Chinese: 漢朝; pinyin: Hàn cháo) was the second imperial dynasty of China (206 BC–220 AD), preceded by the Qin dynasty (221–206 BC) and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms period (220–280 AD).

Xiang Ji (232–202 BC), courtesy name Yu, better known as Xiang Yu, was a prominent warlord in the late Qin dynasty.

Xǔ Shèn (traditional Chinese: 許慎; simplified Chinese: 许慎; pinyin: Xǔ Shèn; Wade–Giles: Hsü Shen; c. 58 – c. 147 CE) was a Chinese philologist of the Han Dynasty.

The first Chinese domination is a period in Vietnamese history during which Vietnam was under Chinese rule from the north.

Wang Mang (Chinese: 王莽, c. 45 BC – 6 October 23 AD), courtesy name Jujun (巨君), was a Han Dynasty official who seized the throne from the Liu family and founded the Xin (or Hsin, meaning "renewed") Dynasty (新朝), ruling 9–23 AD.

The Western Regions or Xiyu (Hsi-yu; Chinese: 西域; pinyin: Xīyù; Wade–Giles: Hsi1-yü4) was a historical name specified in the Chinese chronicles between the 3rd century BC to the 8th century AD that referred to the regions west of Yumen Pass, most often Central Asia or sometimes more specifically the easternmost portion of it (e.g. Altishahr or the Tarim Basin in southern Xinjiang), though it was sometimes used more generally to refer to other regions to the west of China as well, such as the Indian subcontinent (as in the novel Journey to the West).

Huo Guang (Chinese: 霍光; died 68 BC), courtesy name Zimeng (子孟), was a Western Han politician who was a rare example in Chinese history of a powerful official who deposed an emperor for the good of the state rather than to usurp the throne.

The Campaign against Dong Zhuo was a punitive expedition initiated by a coalition of regional officials and warlords against the warlord Dong Zhuo in 190 in the late Eastern Han dynasty.

(This is a Chinese name; the family name is Xin.) Xin Zhui (Chinese: 辛追; pinyin: Xīn Zhuī; died 163 BC), also known as Lady Dai or Marquise of Dai, was the wife of Li Cang (利蒼), the Marquis of Dai, during the Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD).

The Liang Province Rebellion of 184 to 189 started as an insurrection of the Qiang peoples against the Han dynasty in the western province of Liang (Liangzhou, 涼州, more-or-less today's Wuwei, in Gansu province) of second century AD China, but the Lesser Yuezhi and sympathetic Han rebels soon joined the cause to wrestle control of the province away from central authority.

The Hou Han Shu (後漢書), or Book of the Later Han, also known as History of the Later Han, is a Chinese court document covering the history of the Han dynasty from 6 to 189 CE.

The Huainanzi (Chinese: 淮南子) is an ancient Chinese text that consists of a collection of essays that resulted from a series of scholarly debates held at the court of Liu An, King of Huainan, sometime before 139 BC.

The Han campaigns against Dian were a series of Han dynasty military campaigns and expeditions recorded in Han Chinese textual sources that were supposed to have occurred against the kingdom of Dian in Yunnan.

The Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE) was a period of ancient China divided into the Western Han (206 BCE – 9 CE) and Eastern Han (25–220 CE) periods, when the capital cities were located at Chang'an and Luoyang, respectively.

Mawangdui Han tombs (simplified Chinese: 马王堆汉墓; traditional Chinese: 馬王堆漢墓; pinyin: Mǎwángduī Hànmù) is an archaeological site located at a place named Mawangdui in the east Changsha, China.

Rinan (Chinese: 日南, p Rìnán; Vietnamese: Nhật Nam), formerly known as Jih-nan, was a Han Chinese commandery in Jiaozhi.

The southward expansion of the Han dynasty comprises a series of military campaigns and expeditions in what is now modern South China and Northern Vietnam.

The tuntian system was a state-promoted system of agriculture which originated in the Western Han dynasty.