AP World History Chapter 26: Tradition and Change in East Asia

East Asia is also covered in Chapters 14, 17, and 21

How did the Mongols (Yuan Dynasty) treat the Chinese people?

No intermarriage, abolition of Civil Service Exam, couldn’t practice religion, speak language, or participate in government, army, and other cultural practice

The Mongols _____ the Chinese during their period of rule

Oppressed

East Asia includes

China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan

The Yuan Dynasty ended in

1368

The Ming and Qing went to great lengths to…

Erase remains Mongol cultural influence

Dynasty’s following the Yuan tried to

Restore Chinese Tradition

Middle Kingdom

Peak of China culture, connectivity

Five Relationships of Confucianism

Father → Son

Husband → Wife

Ruler → Subject

Older brother → Younger brother

Friend = Friend

Why where the relationships significant to China?

Fial Piety, social structure

China economy was

Agrarian Economy, cultivation of land

Ming Dynasty

Hongwu, Mandarins, centralized government, China before Mongol rule, promoted all things Chinese culutre

Mandarins

Public officials, government

How did the Ming Dynasty remove Mongol influence?

1. middle kingdom/ethnocentrism

2. taught Confucianism

3. abandon Yuan names and styles of dress

4. re-establish civil service exam

5. irrigation systems → agriculture flourishes → economic development

6. production of Chinese products

7. relied on obedience and mandarins to direct local affairs

8. eunchus: marriage laws so they couldn’t have a more powerful family

Emperor Yongle

Moves captial to Bejing, organized expedition to Indian Ocean

Why did Yongle care about trade?

Control and demonstrate power

Why was the capital moved to Bejing?

Protection in the North

Zheng He

Built treasure ships, carried materials

Why was trade ended?

Confucian ideology

When was Great Wall constructed?

Zhou Dynasty

What did the Ming do to the Great Wall?

Refortify, add troops/watch towers

Fall of the Ming

• internal issues

• corruption

• disrupted trade

• ming emperors where lavish while people starved

• peasant revolts

• Manchu invasion

• loss of the mandate

How did the Manchu’s get into Northeast China?

Bribing guards at the Shanghi passage of the Great Wall

Qing Dynasty is also

Manchu Dynasty