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Chinese Imperial Dynasties
[Instructor] In other videos we talk about some of the truly ancient Chinese dynasties, the Shang Dynasty the Zhou Dynasty.발음듣기
And as we get to the end of the Zhou Dynasty, China falls into chaos in the Warring States Period, which is a really tough time for China.발음듣기
But the silver lining is it's also the time that you have all these schools of thought, the Hundred Schools of Thought, of which Confucianism and Daoism and Legalism and all of these other schools of thought begin to emerge.발음듣기
But what we're really going to focus on in this video is the beginning of truly imperial China under the Qin Dynasty from which China gets its name.발음듣기
Qin Shi Huang and the dynasty that he sets up is known as the Qin Dynasty which will be shortly lived but it's known as the first dynasty to truly unify China.발음듣기
The dynasty is known for its fairly harsh, centralized rule motivated over the foundation on legalism.발음듣기
In terms of relics that we have from that period you might have heard of the Terra Cotta Army which was buried along with Qin Shi Huang's grave.발음듣기
Now the Qin Dynasty is most known for ending the Warring States Period and unifying China, and really laying the foundation for the Golden Age of China that will happen in the Han Dynasty.발음듣기
The 200 years of the Western Han Dynasty correspond roughly to the Roman Republic, and as we get to the Eastern Han Dynasty, that corresponds to really the heyday of the Roman Empire.발음듣기
And it's also a golden age of China, a time where science and the arts, and especially Confucianism begins to really take hold in China, becomes officially part of the civil service, part of the bureaucracy.발음듣기
The Han Dynasty was so successful at unifying China culturally and linguistically, that today, 92% of Chinese identify themselves as ethnically Han.발음듣기
So sometimes you'll hear the word Han referring to the Han Dynasty, and sometimes it will be referring to the Han ethnic group, which really derives from the notion of the unification under the Han Dynasty.발음듣기
Now the Han Dynasty, as we see here, ends at the beginning of the third century in the Common Era, and then China gets fragmented again, and it gets split into multiple dynasties.발음듣기
This roughly 360 years that I don't have marked on my timeline, it's not that nothing was happening in China in fact, a lot was, but China was not unified.발음듣기
To get a sense of that, here is China during the Three Kingdoms Period in the third century shortly after the fall of the Han Dynasty.발음듣기
You see the Jin Dynasty depicted here in the fourth century still part of what's often known as the Six Dynasties Period, this roughly 360 years of a fragmented China.발음듣기
It is unified under Emperor Wen of Sui for whom the dynasty is known, and similar to the Qin what the Sui are most known for is taking this chaotic period and finally unifying China.발음듣기
And the Sui are ethnically Han, and they lay the foundation for another golden age of China under the Tang and the Sung Dynasties.발음듣기
One interesting thing about this Six Dynasties Period that we talk about, which is a chaotic time it is a time that Buddhism starts to come into China from central Asia, originally from India.발음듣기
Now one of the most important innovations that comes from Tang China is the notion of block printing.발음듣기
What you see depicted here is one of the first books ever printed, the Diamond Sutra, during the Tang Dynasty.발음듣기
Now, after the Tang falls in 907, you have, on a historical time scale, a relatively brief period of chaos again.발음듣기
About 50, I guess exactly 53 years where you get this Five Dynasties and 10 Kingdoms Period, but then China gets reunified under the Song Dynasty.발음듣기
One thing that happens as we get into the late Tang Dynasty, is that there's push-back against Buddhism that we talk about in other videos.발음듣기
And you see Neo-Confucianism begin to take hold and it really takes hold under the Song Dynasty that we talk about in other videos.발음듣기
The Song Dynasty is also known as a time of really putting a lot of energy into the civil service and the bureaucracy, and it really being very meritocratic based on some of these Neo-Confucian ideals.발음듣기
The compass, which has use as early as the Han Dynasty but it really gets into its fairly evolved or modern form especially for maritime use, during the Song Dynasty.발음듣기
Some of the really far-reaching innovations from this Dynasty include building on the Tang use of block printing but thinking about movable type, which makes printing far more practical.발음듣기
And maybe the biggest single innovation that changed the world, for better or worse, was the use of gunpowder which there's some use in the late Tang, but it really starts to get perfected during the Song Dynasty.발음듣기
They are able to establish the Yuan Dynasty with Kublai Khan being the first emperor of it grandson of Genghis, or Jen-gees Khan.발음듣기
The Ming Dynasty is once again ethnically Han and some of the most famous attractions that are associated with China today really came about from the Ming Dynasty.발음듣기
This is the Forbidden Palace, the imperial residence during the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing.발음듣기
And even though the history of the Great Wall of China goes a good ways back, even to the Zhou and Warring States Periods, much of what you now see as the Great Wall a lot of this brick work, was built during the Ming Dynasty.발음듣기
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