HIST 120 Lecture 12: The Han Dynasty
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141-87 emperor wu of the han (han wudi) Western and eastern han, like western and eastern zhou. There was a division of the han empire in 2 parts. Tomb of marquis li cang d. 186 ce-excavated from 1972-1974. Son buried with personal library-silk manuscripts- books, maps, treaties, medical texts, laozi. Xiongnu wore skins and fur; chinese hemp and silk. Chinese walled towns, fields and houses; nomads are moving around and moving their crops. Cao cao (155-220) usurps power from the han emperor. 207 he may have controlled half of total population of china his son, cao pi, founded the cao wei dynasty. Jin (265-420: lui song (420-479, southern qi (479- What were the main issues that chinese had with buddhism when it first came to. Coup d" tat in 1(cid:890)(cid:889) bce ending the mauryan rule. Golden age of indian civ was the gupta dynasty [test] The theory that the earth moves around the sun.
