HAN CHINA, CONT

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HAN CHINA, CONTD

• Foodstuffs

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MURAL OF KITCHEN SCENE
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DISUNITY INTERACTION BETWEEN CHINA BORDER
PEOPLES

• History 103
• Professor Constantine Vaporis

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FALL OF THE HAN (dynastic cycle)

• Internal problems
• External problems

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INTERNAL WEAKNESSES

• Succession of ineffectual emperors
• Growth in power among local aristocracy
• Power of empress family
• Usurpation of power by eunuchs

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EXTERNAL WEAKNESSES

• Natural disasters, 173-179 AD
• Popular uprisings--Yellow Turbans (184 AD) 5
  Bushels of Rice Band
• General CAO CAO (Tsao Tsao)
• Incursions by non-Chinese nomads

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ERA OF PROLONGED DISUNITY, 220-589 AD
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WHY DO EMPIRES RISE FALL?

• Size of political unit
• Productivity of the economy
• Percentange of total output spent on
  administration and defence
• Technological level

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THE XIONGNU (Hsiung-nu)
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Barbarians (non-Chinese)

• Military civil officials from Jiaozhi (Vietnam)
• Clothed (civilized) vs. partial nakedness
  (barbarity)

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ERA OF PROLONGED DISUNITY

• 220 AD-589 AD

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Chinese and barbarians
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ERA OF PROLONGED DISUNITY, 220-589 AD
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NORTH-SOUTH SPLIT

• Xiongnu sack Jin (Chin) capital, Loyang (316 AD)
• time of Peach Blossom Spring (by
  scholar-official Tao Chien)
• Beginning of migration of Han (ethnic) Chinese
  southward

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5 DYNASTIES IN SOUTH

• 31-589 AD
• Capitals at Nanking (Nanjing)
• Chinese ethnic minority
• Slow sinicization of non-Chinese

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16 KINGDOMS (in north)

• 304-589 AD
• Five Barbarians
• Conversion into sedentary peoples

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Temporary unification of North

• Under Tuoba Turks (NOT Chinese)
• Establish NORTHERN WEI dynasty, 439-534
• Succeeded by 4 short-lived dynasties (E. Wei, W.
  Wei, N. Qi, N. Zhou)
• Sinicization of Northern Wei

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IMPORTANCE OF OUTSIDE INFLUENCES IN CHINESE
CIVILIZATION

• Cultivation, weaving of cloth trousers
• Medicinal plants
• Food
• Horse-breeding techniques
• Saddle, breast harness
• Stirrup? (5th c.)
• Creation of aristocracy of mixed blood

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Conclusion

• Chinese empire Sino-barbarian synthesis

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Reunification under Sui, 589-618
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