GEOG 2RW3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Shang Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Qing Dynasty
29 Dec 2018
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East asia ii: more than 8000 of years of agriculture-based settlement, dynasties: china, familial-based power, dozens of dynasties over the past 4000 years, great wall, defensive fortifications, part of the silk road. Huand-ti emperor (made a unified empire, began the construction of the great wall to protect china from barbarian nomads. Human settlement: prelude to the present: china: cultural & technological innovations, thousands of years of societal innovations, tool making, agriculture, gunpowder, porcelain, silk, paper, compass. Imperial emperors and feudal lords; castle towns: military leaders and their warriors: tokugawa iemitsu (1623-1652) imposed an isolationist policy. Imperial decline: china & japan in the 19th century. Internal crises: external pressure: colonial power, revolution & war, china: revolution ending the qing dynasty, china: communist revolution. Japan: war with china, war with the u. s. Internal crisis was that the economy stalled and so peasants had to pay increasingly heavy taxes driving them to poverty, famines.
