History of China

6th Abraham Lincoln once said that “you cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. The global population kept growing since last few decades, which cause a series problems. China is first identified when talking about the overpopulation problem. Just like honest Abe stated, China has to take action to control their growing numbers. Yet for them, the future holds a continuation of destruction and demise that overpopulation has already wrought on the people. The Chinese…

advancement of human history and technology, the Silk Road was the first and an effective human invention bringing a way for the Eastern and Western cultures of Afro-Eurasia to interact, thus not only; spreading religion, reformation of governments, intercommunication between diverse ethnicities for the first time, making advancements in culture and scientific field, but also fostered the rise of Mongol empire and feudal European kingdoms, in a way, brought a turning point in world history,…

The Mongols rose to power in China, originally, thanks to the leadership of Genghis Khan and his revolutionary military strategies that allowed his armies to easily overtake armies larger than their own. The Mongols began their conquest of China first by attacking and dominating the Tibetan state to the Northwest of China and the Manchu state of Jin that ruled Northern China. From there the Mongol forces took control of Beijing in 1227. This siege ultimately ended in the death of Genghis Khan,…

Across the different nations of East Asia, systems of writing evolved and changed throughout history. Korea as a nation began to develop its own system of writing in 1443, with political opposition. An official under King Sejong the leader of Korea at this time expressed great fear of this development. The official Ch’oe Malli believed that the creation of their own writing system would divide the country, cause social disorder and equate them to the same level as other nations known as…

of lying and exaggerating. An example of the sugarcoating of Japanese history is Japan said that the sex slaves known as comfort women were prostitutes and did the things of their own free will.(Wingfield-Hayes). Those forced labour workers even came out and said they were slaves, but Japan accused them of lying. China and Korea have not been happy with all these changes. Japan has many excuses for leaving these parts of history out of Japanese…

by power. Qin Shi Huang is now known to be infamous and a cruel and heartless tyrant who was unjust to the people of Ancient China and obsessed with his death. This Case study will discuss the negative choices that Emperor Qin made and their outcomes including: Ordering the books and writings of Confucius to be burned, beginning construction on the Great Wall of China and the fact that he forced many of those under his rule to work tirelessly on his accomplishments. Qin Shi Huang died in…

the Emperor in the movie referred to China like it is more modern day China (being all united). “Ying Zheng unified China in 221BC – 206BC for doing this action to China he retitled himself Qin Shi Huang.” (Ying Zheng, 2017). Disney was incorrect in the way it showed China being unified. Another mistake Disney made was setting Mulan from 386 to 534BC in this time China was unified where Disney made it so they (China) was not unified at the beginning however China did become amalgamated at the…

326, which has the history over 1,700 years. it is surrounded by beautiful natural views. It is also one of the most well-known ten Buddhism temples in China and the symbol of Hangzhou. Nowadays, this Buddhist holy site attracts millions of tourists from home and aboard every year. The history of Lingyin Temple could be tracked back to AD 326 in ancient China, it was the Eastern Jin Dynasty period. Legend has it that an western Indian monk named Huili traveled around the China, came to Hangzhou…

imports dropped with devastating effect for the people of China. Samuel Hawley describes the economy of the Ming as huge as evidenced by the list of items produced which were grain, cotton, silk, porcelain, tobacco, paper, peanuts, lacquer, ink, and indigo. The producers of these goods had become too reliant on the silver system and Atwell points out that a drastic reduction in silver would cause catastrophic economic difficulties for China. One problem was in the agriculture realm where the…

the collection of cultures from various religions, laws, and different countries or areas. On the contrary, there is no religion in China, so Chinese mythologies of exceptionalism are original from their ancients and 5000 years of continuous history. They have ancestor worship. Patricia Buckley Ebery depicted explicitly in her book The Cambridge Illustrated History…