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Early Chinese History - Coggle Diagram
Early Chinese History
Before Qin Dynasty
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As time went on, one dynasty was deposed and another would take over.
Early Chinese history is characterized by alternating periods of political unity and disintegration.
Xia Dynasty (around 2100 BCE - 1600 BCE), although its existence as a dynasty is not universally accepted by historians and scholars.
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Kong Fuzi (better known in the west by the Latin translation of his name, Confucius), founder of Confucianism
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After Han Dynasty
Following this, there was a brief period of disintegration when, after the peasant uprising known as the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the country was divided into segments, known as the Three Kingdoms (220 - 280 CE)
An incomplete reunification occurred during the early part of the following Jin Dynasty (265 - 420 CE) but problems recurred and the country disintegrated into 16 kingdoms which persisted into the 4th and 5th centuries.
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Buddhism became the predominant religion in the following Tang Dynasty (618 - 907 CE) and advances in paper-making and the invention of printing allowed for ideas to be spread via written materials.
Overlapping periods
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China is divided into smaller kingdoms and multiple dynasties rising at overlapping periods of time.
The Yuan Dynasty (1271 - 1368 CE) was founded when the expanding Mongol Empire conquered this region.
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Qin or Ch’in Dynasty
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While the duration was very short, the impact of this Dynasty was powerful and long-lasting.
Other developments included various campaigns of standardization which affected the writing system, systems of weights and measures, currency, and codification of laws.
This was also a time when hundreds of thousands were conscripted into forced labor for the government and scholars or other dissenters were killed and their writings destroyed.
Han Dynasty
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During this Dynasty, there was a reversal of the banishment of Confucianism and a more moderate and tolerant approach to ruling the land.