Shang Dynasty

China during the classical period, a span of time stretching from 1000 B.C.E.-500 C.E., was ruled by many families, each having their own dynasty. The very first dynasty of this period was the Zhou, coming into power after overthrowing the Shang. The last Shang emperor, Di Xin, had essentially abandoned matters of the state in favor of hedonistic activities, using tax money to fund them and therefore becoming very unpopular. This caused the Zhou uprising which led to the establishment of the Mandate of Heaven, a concept that not only allowed the Zhou to gain and maintain cultural power of the Chinese people, but led to widespread notions in Chinese society of the validity of autocracy and a need for extremely centralized government that would

After much political disunity and chaos China was finally united under the Sui dynasty (589-618) and Sui emperors allowed

Following the collapse of the Han Dynasty that collapsed due to the civil war; China started a period of disunity until the Sui Dynasty reunited China. The Sui Dynasty was the overthrown by the Tang Dynasty (Pillalamarri, 2015). The Tang Dynasty ruled China from 618-907 CE. In China the Tang was considered to be the most urban of all the dynasties that allowed for China to be hugely influenced by foreign countries. For that reason the Tang Dynasty is considered to hold the strongest power in history.

Following the collapse of the Han Dynasty in 220, China declined into an elongated term of division. China was divided and in a time of war, with a lack of leadership. It was only in the Sui Dynasty (589-618) reunited North and South China as one. The Tang (618-906) and Song (960 - 1279) Dynasties that followed created the “Golden Ages of China”. Although the Tang and Song Dynasties existed in a similar time and had a similar economy, there are also many differences between the influential dynasties such as certain aspects of their society and politics.

The Song dynasty came in to power in 960 and ended in 1279. It consisted of the Northern Song and Southern Song. Northern Song was founded by Zhao Kaungyin, a military

The following are the Chinese dynasties in order from oldest to most recent: Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, Song, Jin, Yuan, Ming, and Qing. The legendary dynasty is the Xia, which is believed to be around 2000 BC. The Shang (1700-1000BC) developed the first written Chinese language. The Zhou (1028-221BC) built the first roads, expanded trade contacts and trade routes, and also developed plows and irrigation systems. Trade at this time was expanding in China. The Qin Dynasty (221-207BC) built the famous Great Wall of China as a defense mechanism and also united all of China under one central government. Next is the Han Dynasty (207BC-AD220), which did a lot for China in terms of trading. They developed the Great Silk Road, a trading route that stretched from China all the way to the Mediterranean Sea. The Sui Dynasty (589-618) united almost all of China. Followed in suit by the Tang Dynasty (618-917) discovered one of Chinas' leading exports, porcelain. During the Tang Dynasty, the first block-style printing press was invented. The Song Dynasty (960-1279) came next, which took over all of China and later took the southern rule after being conquered by the Jin. The Song Dynasty is responsible for developing Chinese cuisine as we know it today. During this time period the compass and gunpowder were also discovered. The Jin Dynasty (1127-1234) took rule over Northern China from the Song. The Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) brought a long period of peace to

The first ever knowing emperor of china was Shi Huangdi, His named applied to the country, while in Zhou’s dynasty he created the feudal system Shi abolished it was no more. Shi was a strong emperor and he expanded the country of Vietnam, during his reign he built the Great wall and a lot of different things that china is revolved around. During the Shi dynasty there where strict laws. If you didn’t go to school you were killed.

The Han dynasty was a golden era for China. It saw the greatest land confiscation of the nation’s history and economic success. In this paper I will be focusing on the structure of the national government, the monopolizing of iron and salt, the Yumen Pass and the Yellow Turban rebellion. Join me as we take a trip back in time to visit a time in Chinas history that is highly revered.

The Han Dynasty, dating from 206 BCE-220 AD, was founded by Liu Bang who was the winner of the civil wars that followed the collapse of the first Imperial dynasty in China (Qin Dynasty). The Han dynasty is considered an influential empire that created a spiritually and philosophically enlightened nation through the teachings of Daoism, Legalism and Confucianism. At the time that Liu Bang first founded the Han dynasty the basic structures of the Qin state were retained, and the ideology of the Qin state initially drifted deeper and deeper into a Legalist and Daoist union. Many elements of these ancient philosophies can be distinguished in the religious and superstitious beliefs and practices that were performed in Han China. The implementation of these three philosophies during a time of political corruption, and spiritual chaos helped to create an overall calmer and intellectual society. The philosophical and spiritual movement of this time and in turn shaped modern religions, state ethics and beliefs.

In 209 BC, Qin Shi Huangdi declared himself the first in what he expected to be a long line of emperors. Preceding that time, China had been an area divided

China has become a rather multinational country within itself and former separated regions due to the Qing Dynasty taking over and having a rather successful reign from 1644 to 1911. The Qing Dynasty were the ones to add several regions to China including Taiwan, Mongolia, Tibet, and Xinjiang. This was a huge step, even though there was trouble with the merger of these realms it turned out to be a good thing for many of these regions and China as well after all the dust settled. One of the biggest difficulties was the language barrier between these regions, the inability to understand one another always creates hardships. The Qing allowed the people of the regions they ended up taking over to keep many of their cultures to try to make it easier for the new realms to accept the Qing. There was of course many people that didn’t accept the Qing’s rule and they created groups and brotherhoods against the Qing including the well-known at the time Heaven and Earth Society. The effects of what the Qing Dynasty had done by combining many of the realms in the area and bringing its people together, even though many fought the merger have made China the large and diverse Asian country it has become today.

The Shang Dynasty was the first of many dynasties for ancient China. From 1500 B.C.E. to 1050 B.C.E. The Shang developed a wide spectrum of societies, metal working skills, along with writing that lead into present day Chinese.

The Sui Dynasty, started from 581 and ended in 618, the Sui Dynasty lasted for only 38 years and had only three emperors. With a tyrannical second emperor - Emperor Yang, this dynasty was often compared to the Qin Dynasty (221 BC - 206 BC). However, the whole nation was reunified and certain economic and political advances were achieved in the period.

It became the last Han Chinese dynasty as it sat between two outsider dynasties, the Yuan and Qing. The early Ming dynasty was not without strife during the early dynasty as Zhu Biao, the Hongwu Emperor’s first son would die before becoming emperor, however Zhu Bio’s son, Jianwen, became the second emperor of the Ming dynasty. The Jianwen era was shortlived as Jianwen’s uncle, the future Yongle Emperor, usurped the throne after a three-year civil war. The empire was in ruins and the capital all but destroyed, and the prominent members of the political elite had been killed. The history of Jianwen was revised by Xie Jin, the court historian of the Yongle

“China is one of the world's four ancient civilizations.” Chinese civilization started around the Yellow River in the Shang Era. Traditional philosophies like confucianism and daoism developed expanded in both territory and population. Its reunification of the marked the start of the Imperial China age. In China’s dark ages the Han Dynasty fell, it divided into the Three Kingdoms Period. The Jin Dynasty then overcame most of china, but its hold on power was very weak, and china for the second time separated into the Southern and Northern Dynasties. China’s middle ages saw a large state of growth through a series of government changes. China went from being four warring kingdoms to be the most culturally strong and technological nation. It was soon consumed by the rise and fall of Mongol Empire.