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Flashcards by Joanne Versteeg, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Joanne Versteeg
about 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Qin | -221-206 BC -Emperor Shi Huang di: "1st Emperor" -accomplishments: standardizing nearly everything; writing, weights, measurements, and currency -built 4,000 miles of road and started the Grand Canal, built the Terra Cotta Warriors with blast furnaces |
| Han | -206 BC-8 AD & 25-220 AD -Emperor Wudi known for conquest -unified China during Han Dynasty -Liu Bang (Emperor Gaozu), Emperor Wu -combined all philosophies |
| Tang | -618-907 AD -Li Yuan (Emperor Gaozu), overthrown by his son Taizong -China's Golden Age: focused on arts, poetry, and alchemy (medicine, compass, and gunpowder) |
| Zhou | -690-705 AD -had the only emperor that was a woman ever: Empress Wu -accomplishments: lowered taxes, agricultural production increased, -Buddhist temples were built -when she left there was civil war & local authority increased, leading to warlords |
| Yuan | -1279-1368 AD -Genghis Khan united Mongol tribes -public works projects increased -they failed to expand by sea when failing to attack Japan (x2) |
| Ming | -1368-1644 AD -Emperor Taizu, Emperor Chengzu -moved capital to Nanking -started autocratic rule -Great Wall of China & renovations of the Grand Canal -sea expedition of Zheng He -Confucian beliefs -metal forging, mass weapon production, steel, clay, blast furnace kilns, movable type printing, armor was much lighter, elixir of immortality had mercury -Liu Bang: codes and signals |
| Qing | -1644-1911 AD -European arrival (Christian missionaries) -immense population growth: agriculture couldn't keep up -century of rebellions: 1800s -dynasty fell due to rebellions and resentment towards the government |
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