UGC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Sui Dynasty, Kublai Khan, Ming Dynasty
15 Jan 2016
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The golden age of china; the coming of the mongols . For all the good done by emperor qin. Led by a low official names liu pang. Major expansion: drove the huns as far north as possible, expanded west and south, as far as vietnam, preserved qin"s standardizations, added government regulation of trade, government control on industries like salt and iron. From the collapse of the han in 200 until c. 280. China consists of three separate kingdoms: wei, shu, wu. The toba, a group of nomads from mongolia, come to control northern. However, their emperor wanted his court to be culturally chinese: so the toba adopted various chinese customs and tools, they were soon absorbed into the country they conquered. Three kingdoms were the beginning of 400 years of anarchy. Series of barbarian invasions, including the toba. The sui dynasty attempted to reorganize and recentralize: land reform, the grand canal, connecting the yellow and yangtze rivers.
