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China
Do you remember…
Chinese Dynasties???
The Dynastic Cycle
Review
Review
Review
Qin Dynasty
Review
CHAPTER 12 
The Han Dynasty
• Had a Golden Age
• Collapsed in 280
Disorder for 400 years
Tang Dynasty
• Conquers Vietnam, Korea and Tibet
– Makes them tributary states – acknowledge Chinese
rule and pay tribute
Tang Dynasty
• Land Reform
– Broke up large agricultural holdings
• More peasants to tax
• More government control over the wealthy
Tang Dynasty
• Built the Grand Canal
– Linked the Huang He and Yangzi Rivers
Song Dynasty
• Had a Golden Age
– New irrigation systems
– New trade routes
created
– Print paper money
Chinese Society
Gentry
• Wealthy landowning
class
• They had the money
to pay for a tutor
– Want to pass the civil
service exam
Peasants
• Majority of Chinese
• Could take the Civil Service Exam (remember this??)
Merchants
• Lowest social class
– Make their money
from the labor of
others
• Want sons to take the
civil service test
– They can afford tutors
Women
• Had dowry – payment
to the groom or
groom’s family
• Became part of their
husbands family
Foot binding
• Very painful
• Was considered a
form of beauty/nobility
• Peasants didn’t foot
bind their daughters
– They needed their
labor
Arts & Literature
Landscape Painting
• Capture the essence of nature
Architecture
• pagoda
Art
• porcelain
Literature
• poetry