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Question 1

Shang-Dynasty

“Foundations”

Answer 1

• Agricultural/Hunting Society ; along Yellow River Valley
• Writing System (Evidence: Divination; Oracle Bones
• Ancestral Veneration (Polytheism Evidence)
• Bronze Metallurgy Technology
• 1st to leave written records / archeological evidence

Question 2

Zhou Dynasty
“Beginning of Classical”

Answer 2

• Mandate of Heaven
• Confucianism (emerged. not popular)
• Analects (Conf. ideas/sayings)
• Respect paretns
• Daoism (Harmony with Nature, Chi, Nature Painting, Fung Shui[architecture], Medicine [herbs, acupuncture]
• END: fragmentation + warring states

Question 3

Qin Dynasty
“Legalist Dynasty”

Answer 3

• Legalism
• Great Wall
• Written Script + Measurements
• Fear; Brutal (Strong Military)
• Civil War –> Han
• Lacked virtue

Question 4

Han
“Golden Age”

Answer 4

• Central Gov
• Technology (Compass, Paper))
• Silk Road + Silk
• Buddhism (from India)
• Confucianism is adopted
• Civil Service Exam
• Meritocracy
• Filial Piety
• Still fragmented

Question 5

Sui Dynasty

Answer 5

• Short
• Mahayana Buddhism
• Gran Canal
• Revolt leads –> Tang

Question 6

Tang Dynasty

Answer 6

• Diasporic communities
• Chang’an (cosmopolitan city)
• Muslim merchants
• Junk ships
• Gunpowder
• Trade surplus
• Xenophobia
• Neo-Confucianism

Question 7

Song Dynasty
“Trade Surplus”

Answer 7

• Economic + tech. boom
• Adv metallurgy/STEEL
• Woodblock printing = high literacy
• Champa rice
• Population increase

Question 8

Yuan Dynasty

Answer 8

• MONGOLS
• Forced cross-cultural exchange (moved Muslim+Chinese ppl),
• Pax Mongolia + protection of SR, - Ghangis Khan
• Astronomy, math, decimals, calendars,
• NO skill/virtue

Question 9

Ming Dynasty
“Medival + Early Modern Period”

Answer 9

• Porcelain
• Trade surplus
• Inflation from silver use
• Abandon Indian ocean trade (can’t worship ancestors, don’t trust merchants)
• Canons
• Indian Ocean power vacuum

Question 10

Qing Dynasty

Answer 10

• Manchurians, kicks Europeans out when they try to spread Christianity
• Build waterways
• Lower taxes
• DEFEAT MONGOLS
• Make everyone look the same

Question 11

Republic
“Modern Period”

Answer 11

• Sun Yixian
• People can vote?
• Ruled by warlords
• Opium
• Nationalist party & Guomindang

Question 12

Mao Zedong

Answer 12

• Respect from people during long march
• Increased Literacy
• Gender Equality + Social Equality
• Communizes China
• CCP –> Brainwashes kids
• Creates famine & angry ppl
• “causes“ youth/RED GUARD rebellion = civil war

Question 13

Deng Xiaoping

Answer 13

• De-maoization
• Command economy + capitalism,
• China begins industrial rev

Question 14

Cosmopolitan City

Answer 14

• Ppl of different cultures, languages, customs
• Live together

Question 15

Neo- Confucianism

Answer 15

• emphasis on high morality
• Hostility to foreign influence
• Stress on tradition
• Patriarchy