chinese Dynasties
chinese dynasties/empires
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- Zhou
- 2nd dynasty
- Ming
- 9th
- Shang
- 1st dynasty
- Qing
- 10th dynasty
- Lao Zi
- "Dao" philosopher studied human society and the link btwn people and nature
- Date of Opium War
- 1839
- Tang
- 5th
- Opium War
- British trade opium (drug) to the Chinese for silver. The Chinese sank a British ship and war started. Britian had superior military technology & defeated Chinese.
- Mandate of Heaven
- Chinese belief that heaven grants a ruler a mandate, or right to rule; in turn the people owe the ruler complete loyalty and obedience
- Yin & Yang
- Forces in nature which balance each other. Yin, blue, is regarded as female, passive and earthly. Yang, red, is male, active, and heavenly.
- Han
- dynasty that ruled in AD & BC periods
- Result of Opium War
- Unequal Treaties, Chinese would pay for opium and British got Hong Kong and access to more ports in China
- Achievements of the Qin dynasty
- Single law code, uniform standard of weights and measures, currency regulations, built roads
- Filial piety
- According to Chinese philosopher confucius, children owe their parents duty and respect
- Terra Cotta soldiers
- Qin emperor Shi Huangdi had life size soldiers made out of pottery clay to take them into the afterlife
- Inventions from the Han dynasty
- Improved calendar, seismograph, acupuncture, wheelbarrow, mill wheel, water clock, made paper
- End of all Chinese dynasties
- The Qing dynasty collapsed in 1911
- Song
- 6th
- Timeline for Great Wall
- Started in 300BC by Zhou and completed in 1600AD by Ming
- Legalism
- Philosophy believed that people acted out of self-interest. They would respond to rewards and punishments, not to good examples. Strict Laws
- Yuan
- 7th
- Qin
- 3rd
- Han
- 4th
- Dao
- The way
- Great Wall
- Located 1500 miles from east to west in the northern part of China