6-27-11 Compare and Contrast Song and Tang Dynasties After the collapse of the Han dynasty at the beginning of the third century‚ China fell into an extended period of division and civil war. China was at a loss for leadership. Many dynasties ruled over this perdiod of time including the Song and Tang dynasties. The political system of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) stood in the tradition of a central bureaucracy that was already created during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD). Unlike the Han system
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the emperors who rule over each dynasty (the Qin and the Han). In addition new technology and developments influence the rise and fall of the empires to. What really lead to the rise of Qin conquering China and the fall of the empire? Politics took a big role in the rise and fall of the Qin dynasty. Between 402 B.C.E and 201 B.C.E the large states of China were fighting to gain control over the entire area during the period of the Warring States. The Qin dynasty was the only state that managed conquering
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Qin administrative structures is one of the key concepts in the longevity of Han dynasty. In both the Qin and Han dynasties‚ a similar legal system of a bureaucracy was adopted‚ where at the center of the state‚ a centralized government body existed. In effort in unifying the empire‚ during the Qin Dynasty‚ land was divided into different administrative provinces governed by nobles and aristocrats. During the Han Dynasty‚ the emperors continued to expand the notion of a centralized state‚ where in
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Shimin. He was the second emperor of the Tang dynasty and he ruled Tang for 23 years from 626 to 649. He was a statesman‚ militarist‚ and poet. He is considered as one of the greatest emperors in Chinese history. His name in Chinese means world and people. When he was young‚ a fortune teller said he would save the world. This is where his name Shimin comes from and it also indicates his life. In his early life he launched lots of wars to unify Tang Dynasty with his father. After Xuanwu Gate Incident
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The Tang and Song dynasties were an era for many technological developments the most important of these are the invention of gunpowder and movable type. Movable type is the system of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document. The distribution of the movable-type systems was very limited due to the fact that they were expensive‚ there was a large amount of labor involved in manipulating the thousands of ceramic tablets‚ based on the Chinese writing
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useful and somewhat revolutionary‚ but both of them had somewhat different feelings of it. The Han dynasties attitude toward technology was that they thought it was very benefical‚ and they admired it. The reason this was because they though it to be very helpful in agriculture and construction purposes. Evidence of the positive effects of this can be seen in Document 4: History of the Early Han Dynasty which tells of a governer of Nanynay and as the very generous and loving person he was his policies
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Tang Dynasty was caused by the political disintegration and the elites sense of cultural decay. Also‚ the Battle of the Talas River led to military demoralization‚ which contributed to the downfall. However‚ the most devastating uprising that led to the downfall was the uprising led by Huang Chao‚ when he violently dominated the villages. The Tang Dynasty’s downfall compares to the downfall of the Han Dynasty because of the outside invaders that contributed to both downfalls of the dynasties. 17)
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Sinicization of the Yuan and Qing Dynasties China is one of the oldest civilizations in human history. Since the emergence of the Xia (夏‚ c. 2070-1600 B.C.) Dynasty in around 2000 B.C.‚ China has had a profound impact on South East Asia and the world as a whole. Today‚ China spans from the Pacific Ocean in the East to the Himalayas in the West and is home to some 1.5 billion people. In China’s diverse history‚ there appears to be a rather surprising anomaly: the rule by ethnic minorities in
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Song Dynasty: The Almost Industrial Revolution Between A.D 960-1279 China entered a phase of economic and agricultural growth that was much larger than ever before. Revolutions in farming‚ ideology‚ and bureaucracy allowed the Song Dynasty to become the world’s first modern economy. This great economy resulted in high levels of urbanization and favorable conditions for technological development‚ commerce and a rural-based proto-industrialization.1 Despite the rich development and likelihood of
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when the Tang ruled‚ but when the Song took over women’s rights dissipated. The Tang ruled from 618-907 C.E. and women were allowed to vote‚ go to school‚ and live a similar life to men. The Song dynasty on the other hand‚ lasted from 960-1279 C.E. and women’s rights were very limited. Before the Tang dynasty‚ women’s rights were very constrained. They had to follow many rules or risk losing their family and sometimes their life. They had no voice to express their self‚ they were not allowed to go
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