RELIGST 3UU3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Qin Dynasty, Xia Dynasty, First Dynasty Of Egypt

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 3UU3
• Professor: Joe Larose

Document Summary

Chi(cid:374)a(cid:859)s dy(cid:374)asti(cid:272) history, up to the arri(cid:448)al of buddhis(cid:373) *three sovereigns and five rulers (2850 2070 bce) Shang dynasty (1600 1046 bce) the 1st historical dynasty: small localized. Eastern zhou dynasty (770 256 bce: larger geographical region, small center, with vassal states. Warring states period (479 221 bce: zhou dynasty broken apart and states are in conflict, many prominent chinese thinkers come from this period. Qin dynasty (221 207 bce: united, great wall of china. Han dynasty (206 bce 220 ce: first stable dynasty, buddhism arrives near the end of this. Mix reaction to buddhism when it arrived; trying to understand this: buddhist cosmos overwhelmed the chinese concept of time. Buddhism - endless time, thousands of different worlds. Red space is the boundaries compared within modern china boundaries in yellow. Unsure what is happening in the geographic regions of the subcontinent and the tibetan platue: more than a millennium before buddhism travels to tibet.