Transcript East Asia: History and Culture

East Asia: History and Culture
Page 66, “China’s History”
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• Define the following:
– Dynasty
– Taoism
– Confucianism
– Commune
– Puppet Government
China: Early History
• 6000 BC- Settlements along Chang
• 3000 BC- Small farming villages along Huang
• 1700BC-1100 BC- Shang Dynasty
– Domestication
– Irrigation
– Bronze work
– Chopsticks
China: Early History
• Qin Dynasty (200BC)Great Wall begun
• T’ang and Sung
Dynasties– China unified
– Culture flourishes
• 1200s- China
overthrown by Mongols
China: Modern History
• Silk Road
• 1500s- Europeans arrive
by sea
• 1800s- China loses
power to foreigners
– Hong Kong (British,
1842)
– Taiwan (Japan, 1895)
• 1912- Last Dynasty
overthrown
China: Modern History
• Chinese Nationalist
Party and Chinese
Communist Party fight
for power in 1930s
• Japan takes over (WW2)
• Communists win
control- Mao Zedong
China: Modern History
• Communism
– Government controls
economy
– Private property siezed
– Collective farming
• Great Leap Forward
(1958)
• Cultural Revolution
(1966-76)
• Some reform since 70s
China: Culture
• Mostly Han Chinese
• Speak Mandarin
• Written Chinese uses
pictograms, over 50,000
characters
• Major religions
– Buddhism
– Taoism- natural order to
the universe
– Confucianism (ethical
code)