Maxine Yee

II Giambelluca #40

RISE LEADERS CONTRIBUTIONS FALL

QIN/CHIN United East and West  Shi Huang Di: first  Legalism (abolished Feudalism) Death of Shi Huanghi,
(Zhou) emperor  Standardized writing and language revolts from peasants and
 Standardized money soldiers, ineffecient rulers
 Standardized system of measurement
 Irrigation projects
 Building of the Great Wall of China
 Terra cotta army
 Expanded Network of Roads and Canals
HAN Defeated Qin/Chin  Wu Ti: expanded the  Silk Road Economic ruins, examination
army Han empire  Civil Service Exam system became corrupt,
(Manchuria, Korea,  Science (Chemistry, Zoology, Botany, Astronomy, Calendar, constant warfare, age of
North Vietnam, Seismograph, eclipse, magnetic compass) divinity
Tibet, Central Asia)  Medicine (herbal medicine, acupuncture)
 Technology (paper, ship building, fishing rods, wheelbarrows)
 Art (Chinese dictionary)
SUI Unified the Han  Emperor Wen (Yang  Construction of Grand Canal (Yang Tze and Huang Ho) Failed to unite the
Dynasty led by Jian)  Coinage Standardization inhabitants, political struggle,
Emperor Wen (Yang  Rebuilt the Great Wall revolt led by General Li Yuan
Jian)
TANG United the divided  Tai Tsung: conquered  Tea Foreign invaders and
people of Sui led by Central Asia (Korea,  Tang Code: code of laws for workers and commoners rebellions
Gen. Li Yuan Vietnam, Tibet as  Gentry: educated class, scholars
tributary states)  Land reform: distributed lands to peasants equally
 Empress Wu Zhao:  Gunpowder
first woman emperor  Great demand of silk and porcelain (economy)
 Civil Service Exam improved
 Culture was copied by Korea, Japan and Tibet
SUNG Chao Kuang Yin  Chao Kuang Yin/Zhao  Magnetic compass Invaded by the Mongols
reunited the country, Kuangyin: known as  Rocket and multi-stage rockets (Kublai Khan)
repeated invasions Emperor Taizu,  Printing (movable type)
forced Sung to move founder of the Sung  Guns and Cannons
to the North, dynasty  Landscape painting
 Southern Sung: period  Winemaking
of growth and  Chinese Opera
prosperity  Porcelain
 Chain Drive Mechanism
YUAN/MONGOL Kublai Khan defeated  Kublai Khan: first  Paper money Death of Kublai Khan,
Sung absolute monarch  Magnetic compass rebellions, rivalry among
 Mongols in military and high government positions (Chinese Mongol imperial heirs,
ruled in provinces only natural disasters
 Blue and white porcelain
 Guns and gunpowder
 Landscape painting
 Decimal Numbers
 Capital: Dadu (Beijing today)
MING Followed the collapse  Hongwi: laid the basis  Restoration of the Grand Canal and the Great Wall Weakened by the battle of
of the Mongol Yuan of an authoritarian  Construction of the Imperial Palace (Forbidden City) in Japan to Korea, rebellion,
Dynasty, reclaimed political culture Beijing internal disorder
China  Zhu Yuangzhang:  Restored Civil Service Exam
rebel force captured  Board of Censor: prevent corruption and disloyalty
the city of Yingtian  All Men Are Brothers: famous story
where he established
his own military base,
had 1M warriors and
ordered the
construction of a
vast navy (founder)
MANCHU Reigned after the  Nurhaci: founder of  Confucian government system Xinhai Revolution
Japan-Korea war, the Qing Dynasty;  Maintained the tradition values of China
founded by Manchus former vassal of the
(Jurchen tribes who Ming emperors. In
are now an ethnic 1616 he proclaimed
minority in NE China) himself Khan of
"Great Jin", after he
had consolidated the
Jianzhou region to
unify the Jianzhou
Jurchen tribes
 Shunzhi: first
 emperor
 Kangxi: defeated
Taiwan and Tzarist
Russia

SOURCES
Baltimore Country Public Schools. (n.d.). Inventions, innovations, and other contributions from ancient china. Retrieved from
http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/chinahist/dynasties.html.
Pablo, M. (2012). [Lecture Notes].