1. China

2. Do you remember…
Chinese Dynasties???

3. The Dynastic Cycle

4. Review

5. Review

6. Review

7. The Han Dynasty
Had a Golden Age
Collapsed in 280

8. Disorder for 400 years

9. Tang Dynasty Conquers Vietnam, Korea and Tibet
Makes them tributary states – acknowledge Chinese rule and pay tribute

10. Tang Dynasty Land Reform Broke up large agricultural holdings
More peasants to tax
More government control over the wealthy

11. Tang Dynasty Built the Grand Canal
Linked the Huang He and Yangzi Rivers

12. Song Dynasty Had a Golden Age New irrigation systems
New trade routes created
Print paper money

13. Chinese Society

14. Gentry Wealthy landowning class They had the money to pay for a tutor
Want to pass the civil service exam

15. Peasants
Majority of Chinese
Could take the Civil Service Exam

16. Merchants Lowest social class Want sons to take the civil service test
Make their money from the labor of others
Want sons to take the civil service test
They can afford tutors

17. Women Had dowry – payment to the groom or groom’s family
Became part of their husbands family

18. Foot binding Very painful Was considered a form of beauty/nobility
Peasants didn’t foot bind their daughters
They needed their labor

19. Arts & Literature

20. Landscape Painting
Capture the essence of nature

21. Architecture
pagoda

22. Art
porcelain

23. Literature
poetry