Chinese Dynasties-People
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14williams on November 6, 2008
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| Hsün Tzu |  Founded Legalism, believed people were inherently bad, selfish, greedy, and corrupt, but made good through legalistic education |
| Han Fei-Tzu | Hsün Tzu's pupil, believed civil wars would end if people were held in check through harsh laws, Believed in a form of totalitarian rule with and autocratic government |
| Shi Huangdi | first Emperor of united China, had an Idea that the law was supreme-even over the rulers and emperor |
| Liu Bang | founder of the Han Dynasty |
| Wu Di | Was a great ruler-founded imperial academy, Leveling, conquered territory including Manchuria, Korea Indochina and central Asia, created Pax Sinica by defeating the Huns |
| Wendi | founder of the Sui Dynasty |
| Li Yuan | Founded the Tang Dynasty |
| Li Bai | daoist poet, wrote about happiness, died reaching for his reflection in the water...a wee bit "tipsy" |
| Du Fu | Confucian poet, wrote about human suffering |
| Zhao Kuangyin | Founded the Song |
| Temujin | Genghis Khan's birth name, married Borte at age 9, but his father died so he had to return to his tribe to be the leader. |
| Genghis Khan | "Universal Ruler", divided army into 95 groups of 1000 people each, took control of mongolia, Manchuria, Korea, northern China, Central Asia and parts of Russia |
| Ogedei | a "great Khan", ruled Mongolia and northern China and southern China, later helped to take over the rest of central Asia. |
| Batu | grandson of Genghis, Led Campaign in Russia and Europe (Poland, Hungary and Vienna, Austria), killed or took people as slaves, Led the Golden Horde- Gold=wealth Horde=elite Calvary force |
| Kublai Khan | grew up in China, advised by confucian scholars, Great Khan of Yuan Dynasty, accepted Chinese culture- wore chinese robs, supported Confucianism and liked Chinese music and dance, didn't like Mongol-Chinese interactions, extended the grand canal so they could get more food to the capital |
| Zhu Yuanzhang | founded the Ming Dynasty (bright/brilliant Dynasty), Buddhist monk |
| Zheng He: | eunuch, captain of over sea expeditions for 30 years |
| Yongle | one emperor of the Ming, supported Zheng He in his sea expeditions, started the Ming Tombs |
| Xuande | Yongle's grandson, stopped sea travel in 1433 |
| Tianqi | young emperor who was interested in carpentry, allowed his eunuch to do his government work |
| Wei Zhongxian | Tianqi's eunuch, kind of a dictator of china, raised taxes |
| Nurachi | Manchu who founded the Qing (and defeated the Ming) |
| Kangxi | qing ruler, supported literacy, Supported exam process of civil service, used leveling |
| Qianlong | ordered the construction of the summer palace (Qing Dynasty) |
| Hsien Feng | only famous for his wife/ concubine who became the empress |
| Cixi | one of Hsien Feng's concubines, was the only one to have a son-an heir to the throne, became empress dowager when Hsien Feng died,made her son's wife commit suicide so she could still rule, she loved luxury items, she built a marble boat when she should have financed a navy, she led the the downfall of the Qing |
| Tongzhi | Cixi's son, emperor at age 5, had a wife and a son, died of "small pox" |
| Tongzhi's wife | committed suicide due to the persuasion of Cixi |
| Guangxu | Cixi's nephew, was emperor at age 4 |
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