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Yang Chien (Wen Ti)
- reunified China
- reduced power of nobility by redistributing land
- chose officials based on merit
- standardized weights, coinage, and measures
- build Grand Canal
- added to Great Wall
Yang Ti
- started wars with neighboring countries and spent money lavishly
- tried to conquer Korea 4 times but failed all times
Zhu Yuanzhang (Hongwu)
- founder of Ming dynasty
- consolidated all power for self so he was the only power
- forced nobles and other powerful figures to stay in the imperial palace so he could keep an eye on him
- very paranoid about his power
- made farming jobs hereditary
Contributions of Ming Dynasty
- Adaptation and mass production of novel
- Wood- cut and block-printing
- Height of porcelain production = Ming vases
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries written
- Most of Great Wall seen today
- expanded the Forbidden City
- worked tirelessly on code of laws
- made all occupations hereditary
- inflation
Yung Lo

began naval expeditions
Zheng He
- peasant farmer who was captured by invading forces
- convinced the emperor to build a fleet of ships
- 9 giant masted ships were constructed
- used his navy to travel all throughout the pacific creating diplomatic ties
- goal was to expand and promote Chinese trade
Footbinding
- Chinese practice of tying women's feet so tightly they don't grow
- was considered very beautiful and elegant
- emphasized Confucian idea of women staying at home
Kublai Khan
- started Yuan dynasty
- ruled with Mandate of Heaven
- Marco Polo visited china during his reign
Manchus
- started Qing dynasty
- ended Ming dynasty
Heian Period
- period of fantasy and beauty
- peaceful and harmonious
- arts and religions flourished
ronin

samurai without daimyo
Grand Canal
- connected Yellow and Yangtze rivers
- helped unify China
- built during Sui Dynasty
Kamakura Shogunate

power of emperors decline and feudal landowners rule
Minamoto Yorimoto
- destroyed all opponents so he could become emperor
- moved capital to Kamakura and ruled as absolute monarch
Neo-Confucianism

incorporated traits of Buddhism and Daoism
Yuan Dynasty
- founded by Kublai Khan
- civil service exams
- many Chinese traditions lost
- Chinese couldn’t meet in groups of more than 3
- built Forbidden City for Mongols
- has Marco Polo come to his court
- tried to conquer Japan 3 times but always failed
Oda Nobunaga
- started to unify Japan
- began conquests to control most of Japan
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- completed unification of Japan
- gave samurai special privileges
- closed off and isolated Japan
Sakoku
- no foreigners allowed in
- no one allowed to leave
Tang Dynasty
- golden age of China
- capital- Chang'an
- founded by Li Yuan
Tang Contributions
- resumed civil service exams
- codified laws
- invented block writing = primitive printing press (not moveable type)
- rice production greatly increased
- merchants more vital role
- production of tea and cotton expanded by hill terracing
- classical period of Chinese art/literature
- poets- Li Bo and Du Fu
- painters- Wu Daozi and Wang Wei
Genghis Khan
- when he became chief he tried to unify all the Mongols
- people joined:
- for promise of plunder
- for promise to destroy China
- in 1206 at the annual chief meeting at Khara Khorum they declared him Genghis Khan (means “Emperor of the Universe”)
- spent his life conquering territories
- fought with spears and re-curved bows conquered China
Taika Reforms
- emperor’s attempt to make Japan more powerful by looking and acting like China
- government similar to China
- same architecture (Nara made capital and built in Chinese style)taxing system was failure and made smaller farmers sell their land and enter into the service of a more powerful family
Song Dynasty
- first paper money
- invention of gunpowder
- flamethrower
Pax Mongolia

Mongolican peace
Tenno
- name for Japanese emperor
- means "holy ruler"
Shogun
- started by Minomoto Yorimoto
- ruled over daimyo
- supreme commander
Tokugawa Ieyasu
- ruled in Edo (Tokyo) period
- golden age
- absolute control and no foreign influence
- only Nagasaki open for trade but all ships were searched for priests
- formation of tea ceremony
- kabuki (shadow puppets) and developed as valid art forms Zen Buddhism

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