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History of China
Questions about Chinese people, events, customs and cultures, including the various Chinese dynasties in existence throughout nearly 5000 years of China's history.
6,134 Questions
Bad things about the Han Dynasty?
The rich taking advantage of the poor.
Political instability.
Peasant revolts.
The first one may not sound very harmful but it really did reduce the amount of tax income towards the goverment. The rich didnt have to pay taxes because they were large landowners. Farmers would go into debt and had to borrow money from large landowners, who charged very high interest rates. If the farmer couldnt pay the debt back the landowner took possession of the farmers land. The rich kept getting more and more land with out being taxed while the farmers, the source of the governments income were losing it all so they couldnt pay.
What are interesting facts about the Han Dynasty?
During the time of the Han dynasty in China, life was very good for many people because of the creation of silk.
People bonded together into one civilization during Han times. They had a common culture. Even in remote sections, distric officials copied the manner of the imperialcourt. Peasants built homes and plowed their fields in the same way all over China.
What countries came to Australia to look for gold?
It means Australia was having a 'Goldrush' this means a lot of gold was being found in Australia at that time. Mainly in Victoria. Lots of different people from all over the world came to Australia to try and get the gold.
How were women valued on Chinese society?
Women were not valued in Chinese society for most of history because it was believed that men were stronger, smarter, and more important than women. Later, women became slightly more valued due to their ability to bear children and in modern times they are considered more equal, although not entirely equal, to men.
Traditionally seen as one of the original 'cradles' of human civilization, China did witness the establishment of human society in and around its Yellow River Basin at some point around 2000 BC/BCE. Archaeological evidence testifies to the existence of the Xia dynasty at that time, although legendary accounts in other ancient lore suppose the existence of even earlier societies under the rule of the 'Five Emperors.' Later (and more detailed) evidence relates the rise and fall of many other royal rulers and families, numerous changes in society, the occurrence of wars, developments in art, science, and philosophy, and interactions with peoples beyond the Yellow River areas in successive centuries.
What are some names of rivers in china?
There is the Yellow River in the North and the Yangtze (or Yangzi) in the South.
What impact did invention of tang and song china have?
The magnetic compass, it helped the Chinese find direction.
Where can I find calendar dates for past years?
Old phone books (1970's and early 1980's) used to have a page of calendars that you matched a year with a number to a group of 12 month calendars. (PA Yellow Page Phone Books). Forget the phone books. Try this http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/monthly.html
Confucius... (Study Island Question)...
How many kids did Mao Zedong have?
So, did Mao Zedong have any children of his own?
Yes, he did have children of his own, 2 because he wanted to encourage the rest of the Chinese people to do this, the reason he wanted all of the Chinese to have children was because he wanted to build up china's army!!!
Fact file on:
Mao Zedong,
Born: 26th December 1893
Died: 9th September 1976
Reasons for Death: Natural causes
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What was family life like in ancient China?
There were many dynasties. People lived on the Houng Ho River Valley because it gave fertile soil for irrigation and wet mud for building houses.The house and the city were shaped as a circle, they believed for good luck. They worshipped their ancestors....... this is what my class and Il earned so far.... i can not give you any more info
What is the Chinese symbol for China?
China is written different ways depending where you are. In Traditional Chinese characters, China is written 中國. This is used in Taiwan and some overseas Chinese communities. In Simplified Chinese characters, used in China, it's written 中国.
The Han dynasty saw the invention of the rudder, which was useful in sea trade and sea warfare. It also saw the invention of paper, which made record keeping more efficient.
How did silk effect the world?
The Chinese made silk, but it stayed a secret until the Europeans captured a Chinese man and forced him to tell them how to make it. Even today, we wear silk.
How did the Ming Dynasty reform china?
The Hongwu Emperor (ruled 1368-98) attempted to create a society of self-sufficient rural communities ordered in a rigid, immobile system that would guarantee and support a permanent class of soldiers for his dynasty:[6] the empire's standing army exceeded one million troops and the navy's dockyards in Nanjing were the largest in the world.[7] He also took great care breaking the power of the court eunuchs[8] and unrelated magnates, enfeoffing his many sons throughout China and attempting to guide these princes through published dynastic instructions. This failed spectacularly when his teen-aged successor attempted to curtail his uncles' power, prompting the uprising that placed the Prince of Yan upon the throne as the Yongle Emperor in 1402. The Yongle Emperor established Yan as a secondary capital and renamed it Beijing, constructed the Forbidden City, and restored the Grand Canal and the primacy of the imperial examinations in official appointments. He rewarded his eunuch supporters and employed them as a counterweight against the Confucian scholar-bureaucrats. One, Zheng He, led seven enormous voyages of exploration into the Indian Ocean as far as Arabia and the coast of Africa.
Which of these describes the rise of the Han Dynasty?
Well, Shi Huangdi in the Qin dynasty was a horrible ruler and his dynasty only lasted 15 years. he wanted it to last for 10 generations or something like that. then, Liu Bang started the Han dynasty and helped overthrow Shi Huangdi. That was the beginning of the Han dynasty.
Why did China get involved in the Korean War?
The Government of China warned him not to come closer than 20 miles away from the Yalu river, the border between China and North Korea, or they would consider it to be an act of war and would enter the war on the side of North Korea.
MacArthur, an arrogant man who wished to provoke China continued past the 20 miles mark, even though told not to by the US. President Harry S. Truman. Chinese troops swarmed across the border driving the Americans back in disarray all the way back to the original border between north and south with great loss of life to the Americans, President Truman fired MacArthur and ordered him back to the US. where he retired.
MacArthur was a warmongering person who insisted on attacking China previously but was told no by the Truman administration. Strategically, he was a good general but, all in all, he was foolish. He ignored the Chinese warning and lined troops right along the Yalu river. He provoked China as a sibling does to there older brother or sister. China then sent approximately 300,000 men against the US (having support from USSR) and pushed the US back past the 38th parallel.
Counterview: Chance to Prove the Military StrengthI think MacArthur was a bit crazy towards the end of his command but he had been a great general as his record in World War 2 and most of the Korean War proves.China had only been taken by the communists in 1949 after a long civil war in which the Americans backed the losers, the Nationalist KMT, who then fled to Taiwan. The Nationalists had been given millions of US dollars and lots of military equipment, but they still lost.
Mao and the Red Chinese hated America and were looking for a chance to fight them. Mao also wanted to prove that Red China was a real force in world communism, he felt that the Russians looked down on the Chinese.
So China was looking for a fight, and they had been giving lots of aid to the North Koreans, as had the Soviets.
MacArthur did want to occupy Korea, but he had to obey the orders of his president and to a lesser extent the word of the UN. When he said he wanted to use the atom bomb in Korea Truman sacked him (which was quite appropriate; politicians make policy and generals carry it out).
Viewpoint 3: Threat of US AnticommunismKorea had been a Japanese colony. When Japan lost World War II, the Allies divided up Korea- North Korea to the Russians, South Korea to the US. The Russians set up a communist government, the US, a semidemocratic one.When North Korea invaded South, the US got involved in the war so as to keep South Korea from falling to communism.
Also, at that time, there were two part of Korean governments grown in China, one was in Shenyang (Northern China) who was the chairman Kim Il Jung, and the other was in Shanghai.
Both of them held different parts of Korea and had different policy, the PRC government helped North, and ROC helped South, and after 1950, Kim Il Jung tried to unify two parts of Korea into one, and the US supported democracy, so they helped the South, and China, Russia supported communist, so they helped North. Also, China worried about US would break into China if the US and South Korea were allowed to win the war.
How does writing spread knowledge in an ancient civilization?
In an ancient civilization, although also true for any other civilization, writing spreads knowledge in several ways. For one thing, it is simply an additional source for knowledge; that is, it is additional to oral sources. For another thing, it is a long-lasting source for knowledge: it preserves and thus passes down knowledge from one generation to another.
He had 1 son and 2 daughters with his wife Qi-guan-Shi. His son's name was Li.
What is emperor Qin's greatest legacy?
# The Qin Dynasty built the Great Wall of China which defended China from the invadees from the north for thousands of years. # He unified the currency which facilitated trade. # He Unified the language so that communication in China became much easier.
