Imperial China

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Imperial China

• I. The Sung Dynasty
• 1. Northern China (960 AD)
• a. Protected by Great Wall
• b. Attacked by Manchurian
• Nomads
• -set up Chin Dynasty
• -Capital _at_ Peking
• c. Sung moved south
• -Capital _at_ Hangchow
• CHINA DIVIDED
• Chin in the North
• Sung in the South

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I. Sung Dynasty (Continued)

• 2. Most advanced culture in the world by 1200AD
  
• a. Large Cities
• -paved streets
• -sanitary dept.
• b. Advancements
• -medicine
• -art
• -mathematics
• -gunpowder

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3. Sung Culture

• a. Farmers peasants poor
• -forced to pay high taxes
• -forced into minor jobs
• -street sweeping
• -trash collection
• b. Women considered inferior
• -Foot binding
• -painful process
• -self-debilitating
• -symbol of inferiority
• -dependent on others

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II. The Mongols (from Central China) History

• 1. Genghis Khan 1200s
• a. Fierce Warriors
• b. Conquered China, Russia
• Muslim Empire
• 2. Kublai Khan
• a. Conquered Sung Dynasty
• b. Mongols Largest Chinese Empire

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II. The Mongols Continued Empire

• 3. Mongol Empire
• a. Constructed roads canals
• b. Built hospitals
• c. Rebuilt Capital Peking
• d. Solution for starvation
• -surplus food storage
• e. Contact with Europeans
• -Marco Polo
• -Italian Explorer
• -lived in China 17 yrs.
• -wrote about China
• -encouraged other
• westerners to go
• to China

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III. The Ming Dynasty

• 1. Strengthen China (at first)
• a. Silk trade
• -boost economy
• b. expanded Capital Peking
• 2. Decline of the Ming
• a. Isolationism
• b. End trade
• -loss of money
• -raise taxes
• c. Peasant uprisings
• -loss of law and order
• d. Ask Manchu Dynasty for help
• -Manchus attacked the Ming took over
• -started the Ching Dynasty

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IV. The Ching Dynasty

• 1. Fear of Revolution
• a. All men wear braids
• -symbol of Ching control
• 2. Emperor Chien Lung
• a. Expand China
• -Korea, Mongolia,
• Manchuria, Indochina
• Tibet.
• -hard to feed control
• -rigid class system
• -Revolution in
• 1911-1912

A young revolutionary shouts out "Awake
quickly!!  Awake quickly!!  Let all you brothers
rouse your spirits," and uses his writing brush
to sweep the old regime from the face of the
earth.Cartoon from the radical People's Sigh,
May, 1909.