China8000 BCE – 600 CE

• Dynasties with emperors

• Mandate of Heaven– Rulers have a responsibility to rule with

compassion– Respect of superiors

• Start of bureaucracy

Politics (State-building, conflict, Political structures, Empires, Revolts and revolution)

Politics (State-building, conflict, Political structures, Empires, Revolts and revolution) • Qin Dynasty (221-207 BCE)

• Western Han (206 BCE- 9 CE)

• Wang Mang (9-23 CE)

• Eastern Han (25-220 CE)

• Sui Dynasty (581-618 CE)

• Collapse of empires in China from internal problems – economic depression, natural catastrophe, social unrest

The Han Dynasty

Wu Ti (Wudi)• Expanded the empire• Strengthened the

bureaucracy through civil service exams

• Promoted Confucianism

• Repaired dykes, built 80 mile canal

Period of Disunion 220-581

General Cao Cao on the eve of a battle he would loose

Leading General in the final years of the Han Dynasty

Bird overhead signifies bad omens

Sui Dynasty 581-618

Wendi- 1st Emperor of Sui

Period of great economic prosperity

Buddhism was the central philosophy

Economics (Agriculture, trade, commerce, labors systems, industrialization, capitalism, socialism)

• Lots of money flowing in from Silk Roads • Primarily Agricultural

Han Dynasty

• roads constructed

• Silk Road trading increased

• Iron Age; modernized army (iron weapons, etc.)

Economics (Agriculture, trade, commerce, labors systems, industrialization, capitalism, socialism)

• Patriarchal Confucian principles • Women only power in court • Scholars/officials military artisans• Few live in cities

Social (Gender roles/relations, family, racial & ethnic constructions, social and economic classes)

• Polytheism• Ancestor worship • Confucianism• Legalism • Daoism• Spread of Buddhism from India ..\..\Videos\APWH\

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Culture (Religions, philosophies, Science, technology, art, architecture)

Human-Environment Interaction(Demography, disease, migration, technology)

• Iron Age

• Modernized army

• Paper, accurate sundials/calendars, agriculture improvements (plow)

• Brush painting • Palaces• Sculptures

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Culture (Religions, philosophies, Science, technology, art, architecture)

Why do you think China was able to accept two belief systems, Confucianism and Daoism?

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