Traditional China

History 111 with Huey at Tidewater Community College

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Sui

The name of this dynasty that first returned order and unity to China after the fall of the Han.

Yuan Jian

The founder of that dynasty who founded his capital at Chang’an and was first to patron Buddhism and Daoism by founding monasteries and appointing monks as officials.

Tang

The new dynasty founded by a general whose military prowess allowed him to take advantage of the fall of the Sui and claim the Mandate of Heaven

Li Shimin

Powerful emperor of the Tang Dynasty who continued the patronage of Buddhism and Daosim and claimed the title of Tang Taizon.

Xianjiang

The new region in the northwest that Tang Taizon claimed control over.

Empress Wu

Tang Taizon's successor. A former concubine who claimed the throne after his death despite her gender. She is responsible for giving meaning to the civil service examination system.

Chang'an

Tang Dynasty enjoyed a cultural renaissance and restored its capital city of Chang'an.

Song Taizon

Founder of the Song Dynasty who reestablished imperial control over the northwestern part of China after the fall of the Tang.

Kaifeng

The northern Song who had to establish a new capital further east called Kaifeng

Hangzhou

Because of increased pressure from the North by the Jurchen people, the Southern Song Dynasty had to move the capital further south in Hangzhou.

Mongols

Powerful nomadic tribe who betrayed their alliance with the Song and conquered the Song Empire

Genghis Khan

The tribal chief who united the Mongols into a mounted army with a compound bow. Conquered Central Asia, the Middle East and Russia.

khanates

At the conqueror's death his empire was divided into khanates.

Kubilai Khan

Grandson of the Khan who completed the conquest of the Great Khan of China. He retained the Confucian system of government under Mongol rule although he remained Buddhist.

Beijing

Kubilai Khan built a new capital city called Beijing and extended the Grand Canal.

Zhu Yuanzheng

Founder of the Ming Dynasty who overthrew the Mongols. He was a peasant, itinerant monk who amassed a peasant army.

Yongle

Mong's most important ruler who pacified the nomadic people who had troubled the Chinese for centuries, extended control over Korea and Vietnam and strengthened the Great Wall

Zenghe

Eunuch who led the Yongle's fleet of ships

scholar-gentry

Learned class of officials because of the government system of State Confucianism which required officials to pass difficult examinations

flying money

the name given to commercial credit after the banking industry was developed because of the rise in trade on the Silk Road

younger brothers

Tributary relations the Chinese established with smaller foreign kingdoms along the trade route.

Neo-Confucianism

revised philosophy that claimed men were the link between the material world and the spiritual one whose duty it was to transcend the material world by self cultivation.

Zu Xi

Founder of Neo-Confucianism. Taught that self-cultivation is achieved by men participating in the world by investigation of things and practicing Confucian moral principles

Li Bo

Daoist poet whose free spirited writing centered on nature and tended to exalt human passion as the only experience of life worth living.

Du Fu

Sober Confucian poet whose poems dealt with historical and ethical themes often reflecting concern for social injustice and the unfortunate.

mountain-water landscapes

Chinese belief that the spiritual truths can be found in nature is reflected in their art where men are portrayed as insignificant amidst nature.

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Created: 2011-05-01
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