Transcript Imperial China - Barrington 220

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 @ Peking
c. Sung moved south
-Capital @ Hangchow
CHINA DIVIDED
Chin in the North
Sung in the South
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
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
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
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
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 Ch’ing Dynasty
IV. The Ch’ing Dynasty
1. Fear of Revolution
a. All men wear braids
-symbol of Ch’ing control
2. Emperor Ch’ien 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.