1. Delia Calut/Paxton School for Advanced Studies/calutd@duvalschools.org
Ch. 10 Inner and East Asia,
Delia Calut/Paxton School for Advanced

2. Han dynasty 206 B.C.E.-220 C.E. What happened after its collapse?
What dynasty reunify China?

3. Sui & Tang Empires

4. 1. Sui, 581-618 Lasted 34 years Why was it significant?
Could you compare it with other Chinese dynasty?
What did it built?

5. Grand Canal

6. Tang dynasty

7. 2.Tang, 618-907 Political life Origins : Turkic elites
Territory: expanded towards W ( Central Asia)
Centralized power
Who did it stop Tang’s advancement towards W?
Where?
How did Tang’s advancement in Central Asia influence the Chinese religion?

8. Political life 751, The Battle of Talas River ( Muslim Arabs)
Get connected to India & Central Asia

9. Political life
How was the bureaucracy selected?

10. Political life A)Who introduced first the civil service exams?
B)Why these exams made a difference in China?

11. Political life A)Han dynasty B) High educated bureaucrats
the lower class could get good jobs

12. Religion ( early Tang) Buddhism
Why was Buddhism so successful at the beginning of Tang dynasty?

13. Early Tang-Buddhism
1.emperor –spiritual function of welding humans into a harmonious Buddhist society
Why was this important?
A)What did the Buddhist monasteries offer to the Tang princes?
B)What did the Buddhist monasteries receive in exchange for their services?

14. Religious life
a)Financial support, advice, prayers. b) gifts, land, exemptions from taxes

15. Economy
What was the economy based on?

16. Economy Trade 1.What were the main items imported?
2.What were the main items exported?
3.What was the most important trading center?

17. Economy 1.tea, sugar, spices, cotton, textiles, Stringed instruments
Wine,painting
2.silk, porcelain
3.Chang’an

18. Tea

19. Economy
Explain Chang’an significance.

20. Economy Chang’an –the capital
Trading center, center of tributary system
Who paid tribute? What was tribute?
Religious network
Commercial network
Cosmopolitan city
Hub of Tang communication

21. Technology
What kind of maritime technology did the Chinese mariners use?

22. Chinese vessel
vessel
compass

23. Daily life What disease affected the Tang Empire?
How was the disease spread?
Do you know any other empire affected by the same disease?

24. Military rivals A)Who were Tang’s most important rivals?
B)What did they compete for ?

25. Military A)Tibet, Uighurs
B) religious & political power, control of local routes

26. What policies contributed to the early success of Tang?

27. Religion
Why was Buddhism replace by Confucianism towards the end of Tang?

28. Religion 1. Undermine the Confucian idea of family
2 encouraged women participation in politics
( Wu Zhao)
associated with social ills (foreign origin)
Monasteries: own a lot of land
didn’t pay taxes
Monks :didn’t serve in the army

29. Religion
How did the government solve the problem?
When?

30. Decline
What factors did contribute to the decline of Tang?

31. Decline 1. internal rebellions: 755, 879-881
2. nomadic tribes ( N border)
3.tax-system problems, powerful military leaders
Ruled China until 907
After Tang, China split in 3 empires:
Liao, Tanggut, Song

32. Song
Tang
Song

33. Political & military Lost the N part to nomadic tribes
½ of Tang territory
Capital :Hangzhou
4 times Tang’s army

34. Technology
Why was considered that Song dynasty had an industrial revolution?

35. Technology Innovations: Calendar, compass design Greek astrolabe, junk
Celestial clock
Gunpowder
Mining, iron production

36. Religion
What was Song’s religion?
Who was the ideal human?

37. Religion Neo-Confucianism : blend of Conf. & Buddhism
new interpretations of the Confucian texts
The sage

38. Technology
What were the consequences of using the movable type?

39. Economy What innovations were in economy? Commercial economy
Industrial development
Inter-regional credit

40. Money during Song dynasty

41. Society-the status of women
Social restriction
Subordination
Low education, cannot remarry
Foot binding
What was the significance of foot binding?

42. Foot binding

43. Foot binding

44. Japan
What did the Japanese borrow from the Chinese?

45. A legal code
Confucianism
Buddhism
architecture

46. Political life The head of the state: the emperor No Mandate of Heaven
794 , Heian became capital

47. Heian 794-1185 Political life: emperor lost power symbolic figurehead
Real Power: 858, Fujiwara family
Economy: Golden Age
Religion: Shintoism, Buddhism( Zen),
Culture: poetry( men)
epics( women)
Which one was superior?
Give an example of an epic.

48. “The Tale of Genji” by Murasaki Shikibu

49. Heian period

50. Decline Founder
Taira-Minamoto war
Minamoto won

51. Kamakura shogunate
Minamoto established a new form of government: the shogunate
Capital: Kamakura
Decentralized form of government
Shogunate: feudal system in which the shogun shared the power with landowning warlords (daimyo).
Shogun
Daimyo
Samurai-great honor-code of chivalry: Bushido

52. Japanese Feudalism

53. Korea
Under whose influence was Korea?
How was Korea organized?

54. Korea Chinese influence: political, religious, cultural.
Divided in 2 kingdoms: Silla & Koryo
Compare Silla & Koryo

55. Silla-Tang ally (collapsed when Tang collapsed)
Koryo-Song ally, unified the korean Peninsula.
Religion: Buddhism
Technology: block printing

56. Vietnam
How was organized?
What was the economy based on?
Religion?

57. Vietnam 2 states: Annam/Dai Viet ( N) Champa( S)
Political & economic life centered around 2 rivers
N –Red River
S-Mekong
Economy: rice-based economy (wet-rice cultivation)
Religion: Buddhism & Confucianism
Women: dispose of property, negotiating roles

58. Rice paddies

59. Cultivation Harvest