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Southern Dynasty
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Southern Dynasty
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Northern Dynasty
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Northern Dynasty
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Emperors:
-Yang Jian (r.581-604) Wendi
-Yang Guang (r. 605-617) Yangdi -
Wendi moved the capital to the newly built Changan named for a previous Han capital city to the northwest. It became the largest city in the world for its day as well as the largest in all of any walled Chinese city. Under the Tang Dynasty it was the most cosmopolitan city.
Sui Dynasty -
Wendi establishes the "Three Department" system
-Six ministries:
~Personal
~Revenue
~Rites
~War
~Justice
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Yangdi repaired and added portions to the Great wall. Over a million men undertook the construction. Working at an exhausting pace, it was complete in 20 days costing many lives. Both Wendi and Yangdi extended portions of the Silk Road.
Sui Dynasty -
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Taizong welcomed Nestorian Christians and allowed a church to be built.
Tang Dynasty -
Gaozong suffered a stroke. Empress Wu was given informal powers as regent.
Tang Dynasty -
Gaozong died. Empress Wu held power as regent through the reigns of her two sons Zhongzong and Ruizong.
tang Dynasty -
Empress Wu usurped power for herself and became the only female emperor in Chinese history.
Tang Dynasty -
Empress Wu was forced to abdicate at the age of 80.
Chan Buddhism introduced and became popular, known as Zen Buddhism in Japan.
Tang Dynasty -
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Kublai sent fleets against Japan.
Yuan Dynasty -
The second attempt was aborted by a typhoon's destruction of the fleet which was the Japanese regarded as the Godly intervention of the Kamikaze or divine wind.
Mongol rule was throughout Japan and was maintained by military occupation. the Mongols resisted assimilation into Chinese culture by retaining the Mongol language and yearly summer visits to Mongolia.
Yuan Dynasty -
Kublai sent a fleet to java to rebuke the reluctant leader, asserted Mongol control.
Yuan Dynasty -
The civil service examination was reinstated, but it required that half the degrees be awarded to Mongos and other non-Chinese regardless of their qualification.
The Mongols rebuilt the Grand Canal and extended it to beijing.
Yuan Dynasty -
Taizu became a monk at the age of 16 and was sent from his monastery to beg, wandering throughout east-central China
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Taizu had policies that favored the poor over the rich; he confiscated great estates, and then the state rented thee lands to the landless. He abolished slavery and heavily taxed the rich.
Ming Dynasty -
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Qing Dynasty
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Qing Dynasty
