Dynasty of China
Accomplishments of the Tang dynasty
When and Where
-618 AD- 907 AD
-Stretched from the Tarim Basin to the Korean Peninsula
-Also from Mongolia South to Vietnam
Key People
-Emperor Gaozu- established the dynasty
-Li Yuan- united China and adopted Buddhism
-Wang Wei- poet and painter that introduced pure landscape, a style of painting for China
-Wu Daozi and Du Fu- grew into a centralized state.
Before and after them
-Came after the Sui dynasty ended in chaos due to tyranny of Emperor Yang.
-Li Yuan started an army in Taiyuan and captured the capital chang’an and put Yang You as Emperor Gong.
-In 618 Yang You was killed and Li Yuan named himself Emperor and named the state Tang.
-An Shi rebellion in 755 was built up army that lasted for 8yrs and overthrew Tang.
-After it was overthrown in 907 eventually in 960 it was replaced by Sung Dynasty.
Known for major accomplishments
-Most influential empire of China’s civilization.
-Became center of trade in the east.
-The study of medicine was big, they discovered diabetes
-The study of law and math
-Characterized by strength
-They have contributed a dynamic impact on our world
-Free from political corruption in the court
-created gunpowder by studying complex chemicals
-woodblock printing
-golden age of art, music and literature
-strong foundation of government
-invented gas cylinders and air conditioning
-discovered the source of diabetes.
Hierarchy
Tang Dynasty
-The Tang dynasty is preceded by the Sui dynasty
-It was founded by the Li family who seized power during the decline and collapse of the Sui dynasty
-The Tang dynasty, which had at one time, the most popular city in the world is regarded as a high point in Chinese civilization.
-The Tang dynasty is a monarchy
-The 7th and half of the 8th century is considered the Zenith era of the Tang dynasty
-Emperor Xuanzong brought the middle kingdom to its golden age while the silk road thrived
Shang Dynasty
-It was founded around 1600 BC by Cheng Teng
-It was a monarchy governed by a series of kings
-Thirty kings total over 600 years
-The king was served by officials who held specialized positions of authority.
-Officials belong to a hereditary class of aristocrats
- The king had supreme power over everything
- He was the political and religion leader
- The king directed life and work to peasants and serfs
- The most powerful to least powerful are king, nobles, warrior, and peasants
- Shang Women
- The women were to be gentle calm and respectful
- Their main purpose was to obey and serve their husbands fathers and even their sons
- Women were lower than men in social standings
- They tended to children and the needs of their husbands
- Men married multiple women
- Women were often used as concubines
- They didn’t have many rights
- They were treated with less respect than the average person in the empire
- A concubine is a woman who live with a man but has lower status than his wife or wives
Tang Women
-They were expected to get married and raise a family.
-spinning and weaving were some activities the women did.
-Peasant women would care for the livestock and tend to the fields.
-Upper class women could get powerful positions as a wife or concubine of a powerful man.
-Upper class women could enjoy riding horses.
-They could play the games such as polo, and even hunting.
-If you were a lower class wife then you could not partake in these activities, and had to do housework.
Compare Tang and Shang
-Both were monarchic governments
-Women's social status was considered less the mens
-Motherhood was primary role of women
-King is supreme ruler
-strong social status pyramids, king on top, peasants on bottom.
-Dependent on trade.
Tang
-King was more involved with economy
-Tang women generally had more freedom than Shang women
-if they could afford to pay someone else to do housework, they would spend more time with recreational activities.
-Larger civilizations than Shang
Shang
-King had group of "advisors" that helped him rule
-King was military, governmental, and religious leader.
-Polygamy was more common.
-Women were at the bottom of social ranking
Agriculture and trade
-Increased international trade contacts, and a revolution in agricultural productivity.
-overseas trade through investments in trading vessels, which undertook trade at ports
-The government encouraged people to reclaim barren lands anf put them under cultivation. Anyone who opened up new lands and paid taxes were granted permanent possession of the new land.
-invented a type of plow to cultivate the lands. used and invented irrigation systems made from bamboo.
-cotton was a very economic crop
-cotton flowers were collected, pits removed, beaten loose with bamboo bows, and drawn into yarns and weaved into cloth called "jibei."
-trade was a huge part of the economy and every "social" class was involved in trade some way, whether it be by trading agriculture supplies or other important things for the overall dynasty.
-Since the collapse of the Sui Dynasty (581- 618), productivity had been severely damaged and the national economy was in paralysis
-After the Tang Dynasty reunified the whole nation, Emperor Kao Tsu paid much attention to develop agriculture and successively implemented a series of reforms, such as Juntai Zhi (Land equalization system), and Zuyongdiao system.
-In this way, the peasants' burden was lessened and production efficiency was improved.
-as a result, farm told and agriculture technique were improved.
-In addition, many irrigation works were completed soon after the foundation of the Tang Dynasty, which contributed to the rapid development of agriculture in Zhen Gren Reign and the heyday of Kaiyuan.
-The economy was very great in power.
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