TheDynastic

Cycle

TheDynastic

Cycle

A new dynasty

comes to power.

A new dynasty

comes to power.

Lives of common people improved;

taxes reduced;farming encouraged.

Lives of common people improved;

taxes reduced;farming encouraged.

Problems begin(extensive wars,invasions, etc.)

Problems begin(extensive wars,invasions, etc.)

Taxes increase;men forced towork for army.

Farming neglected.

Taxes increase;men forced towork for army.

Farming neglected.

Govt. increasesspending; corruption.

Govt. increasesspending; corruption.

Droughts,floods,

famines occur.

Droughts,floods,

famines occur.

Poor loserespect for govt.They join rebels

& attack landlords.

Poor loserespect for govt.They join rebels

& attack landlords.

Rebel bands findstrong leader who

unites them.Attack the emperor.

Rebel bands findstrong leader who

unites them.Attack the emperor.

Emperor isdefeated !!

Emperor isdefeated !!

The emperorreforms the govt.& makes it more

efficient.

The emperorreforms the govt.& makes it more

efficient.

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Chinese Dynasties Longest continuous history of any culture.

DYNASTIES:

Shang: 1700’s-1100’s BCE

Irrigation Systems, Calendar (fairly accurate)

Qin (Ch’in): 200’s BCE

1st Imperial dynasty, expanded into E China, ordered “Great Wall” built as protection.

Han: 202 BC – AD 220

strengthened military power

Mongols overthrew the Sung around 1200, ruled until 1279 when the Chinese rebelled.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mongol_Empire_map.gif Mongol expansion map

After China drove the Mongols out, China limited outside influence , forbade foreign trade.

Struggle for China

• Mao Zedong: Communist chairman of China from 1949 to 1976.

• Chang Kai-Shek fought unsuccessfully to stop the communists.

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Taiwan

• Chang Kai-shek, moved gov’t to Taiwan (Chinese territory).

• Claim: Taiwan is separate from China.

• Conflict between these two groups (PRC & ROC) still exists today.

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Communism in China• 1st challenge: feed the people…so gov’t

organized land into larger farms. • Man no longer dominant family member• Women worked the fields.

• To slow the growth of population: 1 child policy.• Great Leap Forward: disaster for Mao (pg 623)• Cultural Revolution: chaos, closed schools, (pg

623) Intellects killed or sent to work in the countryside

Tibet & The Dalai Lama (14th)

• Tibet: Himalayan plateau• DL’s ruled Tibet 1640s -

1950s. • 13th DL proclaimed

independence : 1913. • China did not accept

independence. (subordinate)• DL (14th) exiled, living in India.• Tibetans have been victims of

extreme human rights violations by Chinese government.

Hong Kong & Macao “One Country Two Systems”

• Hong Kong & Macao : “Special Administrative Region” of China

• Autonomous

• HONG KONG: • UK territory from 1842-1997. • Cosmopolitan & Highly Developed.• One of most densely pop regions in

world. • MACAO: • Former Portuguese territory• Returned to China: 1999

Japan

• Feudal system similar to medieval Europe.

• Lords fought each other.

• 1274-1281: united together to fight off the Mongols

• Drove European invaders out in the 1600’s

Isolationist Japan • Japan was closed to trade,

isolated. • The US wanted to open up Tokyo

for:– Trade– Coal/refueling US ships

• Impact of the 1854 Treaty Signed between Japan & US: – Inflation – Overthrow of Shogun & Meji

restoration: restoring imperial rule, & modernizing Japan

Pearl Harbor• Japan: allies with Germany &

Italy

• Dec 7, 1941: Japanese attack US Naval Base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

• RESULT: Brings US into WWII

Atomic Bomb of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

• US dropped atomic bombs on Japan: Aug 1945.

• Japan surrendered & was occupied & assisted in rebuilding by US forces.

• Japan banned nuclear armament.

Korean War • 1950: N. Korea, invaded S. Korea• 1953: Threat of a nuclear world war

ended the war at a stalemate.

• RESULT: Demilitarized Zone: 2.5

mile buffer zone at the 38th parallel where troops from neither side are allowed.

• Unique area: Endangered animals & species thrive.

Vietnam Conflict 1964-1973

• Vietnam independent from France 1954

• Split into North: Communist & South: pro-Western govt.

• US Supported the South. • China, Russia Supported the

North• 1973 Last of the US troops

pulled out of Vietnam.• North and South Vietnam

reunified as a communist state 1975.

Pol Pot & The Killing Fields: 1975-1979

• Killing Fields: mass graves in Cambodia.

• An estimated 1.7 million people were killed/starved & buried by the Khmer Rouge regime, led by Pol Pot during its rule from 1975-1979.

• Goal: form a Communist peasant farming society.

• Foreigners expelled, & Cambodia was sealed off from the outside world.

• 1978 invaded by Vietnam & Pol Pot fled to Thailand.