HILD 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wang Zhaojun, Levirate Marriage, Dynastic Cycle
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Difference between the land in the north and the south china. Evidence in which the three countries communicated with one another (china, japan, and korea) Two ruled by non-chinese: yuan (mongol) and qing (manchu) Lecture outline: yuan dynasty: the northern frontier problem, the mongol conquest, life under the mongols. Traded with each other--tea, animals such as sheep, horses, etc. When disease came about, the chinese refused to trade with the nomads. Done by mongols; looked down upon/disgusted by chinese. If the older brother dies, the younger brother can take the wife as his own. If the ruler dies, his son can marry his wife if they are not blood related. Marriages done to form alliances between two groups. Was a woman who was a part of the han court and got married off. She wasn"t even a princess, but a concubine. During the time, portrait paintings were often altered to appear more beautiful" than the person actually was.
