Chinese Dynasties
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- What is SEEBAGG?
- The institutions of culture. Social structure, Education, Economy, Beliefs, Artistic expression, Geography and Government.
- What is a dynasty?
- An empire ruled by a family. Passed from parent to child, usually father to son.
- What is the Dynastic cycle? Why do dynasties rise and fall?
- The dynastic cycle is: A new dynasty is formed --> a new philosophy is chosen--> infrastructure is built--> taxes are collected--> the government begins to become corrupted--> infrastructure declines --> Peasant rebellion--> defenses weakened, dynasties overthrown, then whole thing starts over. Dynasties rise and fall because one dynasty takes over a corrupted one, but then gets corrupted itself.
- Shang Social Structure, Economy, art and government
- Aristocracy (family based), Agriculture and a little trade, bronzes and calligraphy, and bureaucracy with a king
- What is animism?
- The belief that everything in nature had a spirit. Believed in the Shang.
- Who is ti?
- The most important Shang god, provided abundant harvests or victories in battle. Influenced through kings ancestors.
- What are oracle bones?
- Diviners wrote on turtle shells or cow bones and heated them, and then used the cracks to interpret messages.
- What is silk?
- In the Shang, skilled artisans learned how to raise silk worms and use their cocoons to spin thread and weave cloth, called silk.
- What was the rise and fall of the Shang?
- Rise; tribal people, took over much of china. Fall: attacked by nomads from North and West
- What was the rise and fall of the Zhou?
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Rise: Allied w/ other nomadic groups to take over Shang
Fall: Feudal lords had too much power, and they rebelled