Rise and Fall of Chinese Dynasties
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- Shang rise to power
- The shang took over eastern china and declared themselves the rulers
- Shang fall from power
- Attacked from the north and south by nomadic invaders.
- Shang fall from power/ Zhou rise to power
- Zhou teamed up w/ other nomadic invaders and took over Shang
- Zhou Fall from power
- The feudal lords had gotten too much power and weren't loyal to the king, so they rebelled and overthrough Zhou. After that for 500 years, warlords fought eachother
- What was the Qin rise to power?
- Near the end of the era of warring states, there were about 7 major states, qin was one of them. Qin took over the other ones
- fall of qin/rise of han
- Qin way too strict, so after 15 years there was a peasant rebellion lead by Liu Bang
- Rise of the Tang dynasty
- Also invaders, took over after 300 years of little different dynasties
- Fall of Tang Dynasty
- Emperors weak, so rebellion. Rebellion failed, but weakened tang more and opened it up to invaders and band of thugs. Powerful general killed emperor
- Fall of Han Dynasty
- Taxes too high, so rebellion. Many different little dynasties formed for 300 years.
- Fall of Song dynasy/ Rise of Yuan
- The Mongols took over northern china and the Jin empire, then took over Song
- Rise of Song Dynasty
- 50 years of chaos after Tang. Finally Zhao Kuangyin seized power and declared new dynasty.