World History: Ruler, Yang Jian, Extended His Rule To The Rest Of China

AP World History Ch. 15
Cornell Notes Period: 2 Section Title:

The Sui Dynasty (589-618 C.E.)

Key Points Notes / Details
| |-Ruler, Yang Jian, extended his rule to the rest of China |
| |-580, Jian died, and his son was heir |
|Establishment of the Dynasty |-Jian had sent military expeditions into central Asia and southern China |
| |-589, Sui Dynasty ruled all of China
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| |-Emperors of Sui demanded the building of palaces and granaries, defensive walls, |
| |dispatched military forces, levied taxes, and labor services |
| |-World’s largest waterworks projects before modern times |
| |-Helped trade between northern and southern China to make more rice and other food |
|The Grand Canal |crops from the Yangzi River available to people from the north |
| |-Was a series of artificial waterways |
| |-Started from Hangzhou in the south to Chang’an in the west, to Beijing in the north |
| |-2,000 km long and 40 paces wide w/roads on each side |
| |-Integrated the economics for the north and the south |
| |-Established an economic foundation for political and cultural unity between the two |
|Effects of the Grand Canal | |
| |-Served as the conduit for major trade |
| |-Continues to function today |
| |-The Canal depended on high taxes and labor forces which lead to conscripted |
| |laborers, causing millions of laborers to rebel |

Vocabulary
|Granary |(n.) a storehouse for threshed grain |
|Conduit |(n.) a natural or artificial channel where something (such a fluid) is conveyed |
|Propitious |(adj.) tending to favor; benevolent |

Question for class discussion Answers
|How were they able to conscript laborers? | |