Imperial China -- Qin to Ming Dynasties

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Imperial China Qin to Tang Dynasties
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Qin Chin Dynasty, 221-206 B.C.E.

• Established Chinas first empire ?
• Shi Huangdi (221-206 B.C.E)
• Legalist rule ?
• Bureaucratic administration
• Centralized control
• Military expansion
• Book burnings --gt targetedConfucianists
• Buried protestors alive!
• Built large section of the Great Wall

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Shi Huangdis Terra Cotta Army
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Shi Huangdis Terra Cotta Army
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Shi Huangdis Terra Cotta Soldiers Cavalrymen
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Cavalry
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The Details of an Individual Soldier
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Individual Tombs
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The Great Wall with Towers
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The Eastern terminus of the Great Wall, Shanhai
Pass
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Han Dynasty, 206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.

• People of the Han --gt original Chinese
• Paper invented 105 B.C.E. ?
• Silk Road trade develops improves life for many
• Buddhism introduced into China
• Expanded into Central Asia

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Han Roman Empire Connection
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ChanganThe Han Capital
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Emperor Wudi, 141-87 B.C.E.

• Started public schools.
• Colonized Manchuria, Korea, Vietnam.
• Civil service system ?
• bureaucrats
• Confucian scholar-gentry
• Revival of Chinese landscape painting.

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Trade Routes of the Ancient World
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Ruins of Jiaohe, Turphan depression. Han
dynasty outpost in Central Asia
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Sui Dynasty, 581-618 C.E.

• Land Equalization System gt land
  redistribution.
• Unified coinage.
• Grand Canal constructed.
• Established an army of professional soldiers.
• People were overworked and overtaxed!

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The Grand Canal
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The Grand Canal Today
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Tang Dynasty, 618-907 C.E.

• Imperial examination system perfected.
• Liberal attitude towards all religions.
• Spread of Buddhism in China
• Golden Age of foreign relations with other
  countries. ?
• Japan, Korea, Persia

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Tang Government Organization
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Tang Dynasty, 618-907 C.E.

• New technologies
• Printing --gt moveable print ?
• Porcelain
• Gunpowder
• Mechanical clocks
• More cosmopolitan culture.
• Reestablished the safety of the Silk Road.
• Tea comes into China from Southeast Asia. ?

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Empress Wu Zetian, 624-705

• The only female Empress in Chinas history who
  ruled alone. ?
• Searched for outstanding individuals to attract
  to her court.
• Construction of new irrigation systems.
• Buddhism was the favored statereligion.
• Financed the building of many Buddhist
  temples.
• BUT She appointed cruel and sadistic
  ministers to seek out her enemies.

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Foot-Binding in Tang China

• Broken toes by 3 years of age.

• Size 5 ½ shoe on the right

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Foot-Binding in Tang China

• For upper-class girls, it became a new custom.

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The Results of Foot-Binding
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Song Sung Dynasty, 960-1279 C.E.

• Creation of an urban, merchant, middle
  class.
• Increased emphasis on education cheaper
  availability of printed books.
• Magnetic compass makes China a great sea power!
  ?

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Rice Cultivation Began Under the Song
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Song Rice Cultivation