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World History 1000bce-1450ce Overview

c. 10,000 BCE – 600CE – Agricultural Revolution– Cities– Civilization– Major Religions

600 CE –1450– Islam and Muslim Dynasties– South American Dynasties– European Feudalism– World trade increases– Chinese grows in wealth and sophistication

• Mongols build the greatest empire in land size and population ever by conquering Asia, India and part of Europe

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Early Chinese Dynasties

Shang• Shang Dynasty 1800-1076

BC – Huang He river valley, – Agricultural Revolution, – Oracle bones and literacy begins– Bronze Age, – Father led family units– Bronze Age

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Chou 1076-221 BC (Jo)

• Iron used for weapons and farming,

• regional feudal states not a united state

• Last 400yrs - warring states which led

• Confucianism, Taoism and Legalism all come out of the 100 Schools Movement trying to bring stability to China

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Ch’in Dynasty 221 -206 BCE– Shi Huangdi (1st emperor)– Legalist philosophy helped

centralize and unite China– standardized coinage, roads

and bureaucracy– Censorship of Confucianism

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Han Dynasty 200BCE- 200CE• classical Chinese era• Confucian based

society returns after legalist Ch’in dynasty

• Paper & porcelain invented

• Most prosperous Chinese culture to this point

• Confucian Civil Service Exams begin

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Huns invade

Huns come anddestroy the Hanafter their govtBecomescorrupt and thepoor revoltbecause theyare not beingwell served bythe govt

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Dynasties of the North and South

• After the Hun invasion a lengthy period of disunity and internal strife lasted until about 500

• Small states fight each other constantly• Confucianism declines because the court was

declining• Buddhism flourished because Buddhism's

promise of an afterlife appealed to poor• scholar-gentry replaced by militarized

aristocracy

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