HIS280Y1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Xin Dynasty, Mahayana, Taipingjing
Document Summary
Theme (1): nature of chinese political, social, and intellectual systems in the imperial period. Them (2): china"s relations with other peoples, especially nomadic peoples to the north. 5000 bce: no real civilization or anything. 3000-2000 bce: the lungshan culture (1), the first stratified, hierarchical society develops. The shang captured many prisoners of war from the qiang (2) people, and sacrificed them and stuff. They would eventually join with the zhou to overthrow the shang. Typical raised armies rather than maintaining standing ones. Five emperors (1) also preceded shang, supposedly: shahao, zhuanxu, yao, shun, yu the great who founded the xia dynasty (1) who shihan said made irrigation and also instituted father-son hereditary succession. These were followed by cheng tang (1) founder of the shang dynasty who was important because he founded the shang dynasty and king wu (1) who would found the. Huang di is mythic ancestor to chinese people who is the basis for when people say.
