“Pure Conversation”(qingtan) movement by analyzing the reason that it emerged and the influences of it. In the first part‚ the origin of qingtan will be introduced. It is advocated by the historian that qingtan is an extension of qingyi 清议 in the late Han dynasty‚ which will be explained in details later. (Tang 1991‚ pg.11)). While discussing the reasons of its origin‚ some points of view of scholars will be reviewed. Also‚ the argument that whether the “Pure Conversation” has negative or positive influences
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Every “successful” nation‚ or empire‚ requires a legitimate social‚ political‚ and economical system. These are the foundations that every humanizing system needs to improve and expand the dynamics of the country. The dynamics is the ideology that it follows and lets it govern the nation. The ideology could be a religious‚ economical‚ political‚ or socially motivated force the derives the whole nation forward. I will argue that Confucianism is an ideology that strongly connects politics‚ “ethics”
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Western Asia with the Mediterranean and European world‚ as well as parts of North and East Africa began to be used under the Han Dynasty (202 BC – AD 220). Originally‚ the Chinese trade silk occurred internally within the empire‚ but the caravans were often attacked by central Asian tribes‚ hoping to find some valuable commodities. In order to protect these caravans‚ the Han Dynasty extended its military defenses further into Central Asia. Later came the idea to expand the silk trade to central Asia
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(pg. 287-310) In the year 139 B.C.E.‚ the Chinese emperor Han Wudi sent an envoy named Zhang Qian on a mission to lands west of china. The emperor’s purpose was to find allies who could help combat the nomadic Xiongnu‚ who menaced the northern and western borders of the Han empire. From captives he had learned that other nomadic peoples in far wester lands bore grudges against the Xiongnu‚ and he reasoned that they might ally with Han forces to pressure their common enemy. The problem for Zhang
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Advanced Placement World History Summer Assignment Contact info: Mary Thompson Kristina Moser mthomp2@neisd.net (school year) kmoser@neisd.net mthompson84 @aol.com (summer) cell: (210) 639-6798 1) Obtain all required materials for the course. • loose paper • spiral notebook • textbook (available at Roosevelt High School (356-2200) World Civilizations: The Global Experience. Stearns
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The Zhou‚ Qin and Han Dynasties: Zhou Facts; the Zhou are believed to have been Turkic-speaking peoples from Central Asia and their second capital was built in the Wei Valley. (West of the Yellow River) King Wu‚ their leader overthrew the Shang and adopted some Shang’s culture‚ but extended Chinese rule beyond the boundaries of Shang On their capital (Wei Valley)‚ the royal families got huge tracts of lands and the rest of the people living in this are were peasants who lived in villages
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"Seidenstraße" (literally "Silk Road") was coined retrospectively by the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen in 1877 and has found since its way into general usage. It gets its name from the lucrative Chinese silk trade‚ which began during the Han Dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE)‚ and was the major reason for the connection of trade routes into an extensive trans-continental network.[1][2][3] In recent years‚ both the maritime and overland Silk Routes are again being used‚ often closely following the
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continuity for Chinese civilization. Many of Confucius’ beliefs and values will survive and withstand many potential changes to come. One of these changes were Buddhism‚ which came into China through many different paths such as the Silk Road. The Han Dynasty fell‚ causing China to go into a three year period of chaos. China’s cultural unity was threatened by the spread of Buddhism‚ though it was tone of the one ideas that was imported into China before the 20th century. Fortunately for China’s streak
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The Silk Road was a trade route‚ beginning in China and created during the Han dynasty‚ which facilitated trade throughout Eurasia. The Silk Roads stretched all the way to the Mediterranean‚ and goods from places such as Rome and even Africa were traded along the roads. From 200 BC to 1450 BCE‚ the patterns of interactions along the Silk Roads changed with the spread of religions and the rise and fall of civilizations‚ but maintained continuity with the goods traded along its routes and its main
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Someone then concludes that “the most successful ancient empires were able to maintain hegemony over conquered peoples with little or no thought to anything besides military power.” However‚ a successful emperor‚ such as Alexander the Great‚ Ashoka‚ and Han Wudi‚ did not gain the political control of the conquered regions through military force‚ but adopted more complicated and efficient methods such as controlling or eliciting peoples’s thoughts through education‚ making strict laws and assimilation—adapting
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