How Did Chinese Culture Influence The Qing Dynasty

Economic relationships between classical China and India were similar and almost seemed to rely on one another. India was considered “the center of trade”. Most trade routes were all passing through and dependent on India. Indian emphasis on trade and merchant activity was far more than in China, and also greater in the classical Mediterranean world. During the Maurya rule, India expanded their trade between the main centers of civilization Eurasia and Africa. Some products produced at one end of the system, such as Chinese silks and porcelains, were carried the whole length of the trading networks to be sold at the other end of the routes, in Rome. As a result, China and India both had to work together and figure out a way to make sure and help each other because both civilizations depended on each other for different things.

The early modern dynasties of China known as the Ming and Qing gained their political identity from traditional Chinese cultures. After a long time of oppression from traditional Chinese ways caused by the Mongols ruling over China there was an immediate reverse to Chinese tradition once they lost their power.

During the rule of Justinian (527-565 CE) this empire was expanded to the greatest size that it would ever reach. Because it was so big, Justinian assigned two capitals for the empire, and as this happened, there was transfer of goods and technologies through both capitals. Because the empire was so big and the amount of merchandise and money that was managed through the empire was so broad, Justinian implemented the use of banking, which changed completely the way people earned money, saved their money, and traded goods to get money from them to bank it. As this happened in the Byzantine Empire, China fell into a cultural exchange of goods, technologies, and ideas that came from the Silk Roads. It was during the Tang and Song dynasties that this trade was at its peak. At the time, besides receiving goods from Europe and other neighbors through the complex routes of trading, the Chinese developed their own technologies for their own exportation. Among these technologies there was large metallurgical production, invention of gunpowder, naval technologies, rapid and cheap printing, and porcelain. These technologies enhanced even more trade for China and due to this, paper money was invented for the purpose of controlling trade; the same thing that occurred with the Byzantine Empire and banking. Even though China invented more technologies than the Byzantine Empire, both became major trade hotspots in their own way and invented systems to

In terms of the Chinese tribute system we examined in class, the leaders of China’s voyages dealt with leaders of countries they visited by treating them based on the tribute gifts they received. Under Confucian civilization, China often received tribute from the foreign states they visited and gave them Chinese products and recognition of their authority and sovereignty in return. There were several tribute states to China including neighboring countries such as Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Borneo, Indonesia, South Asia and Central Asia. However when countries stopped paying tribute to China, there were often tensions. During the Zheng He expeditions many goods were carried to build tribute relationships between the Ming Dynasty and newly discovered kingdoms. An example of the a tribute gift given was an eyeglass given to Zhu Di by Parameswara of Malaca. “Of all the tributes Zhu Di received that summer from the many envoys

The Chinese and European cultures came together for the first time in the fifteenth century when great Chinese fleets traveled throughout the Indian Ocean and along the coast of Africa. These voyages created much concern for China. They lead to a period of isolation for security reasons. By the time the first Europeans arrived in China there was little to no evidence of these voyages. (Mungello 2005) Fallowing that time the Chinese government proceeded with a policy of containment to the trade merchants and missionaries that would visit them in the coming centuries. This paper will server an explanation to why China and Europe at first embraced each other then rejected each others

Europeans were actually amazed on how well-organized China and Japan government was. They were so impressed that they called them both Empires even though neither of them had a nation ruled over the people. What the Europeans really wanted for trading privileges. The Chinese had many goods like Silk, precious stones, porcelains that the Europeans wanted to exchange for. The Chinese became a victim to the European imperialist.

One major way of trade to China was the Maritime Silk Road. This naval route helped China trade with the rest of Asia. The Maritime Silk Road also helped development of technology in ancient China. Ancient China and ancient Japan did have some trade and communication similarities.

The development of countries and beginning of language development and agriculture was very interesting to read. Developing knowledge of the Chinese government was fascinating. In 1400 China was already considered an aggressive country. The Chinese’s government system was well organized, very educated and ruled over 100 million people. The country was so advanced, that they were not interested in joining forces or trading with other counties. During this time period China created compasses, gunpowder, various printing and paper money. For a short period of time the country conducted some trading, but later decided that it was not essential to utilize the services of other countries.

The Mongols over ran china and ruled it for over 100 years, until a new dynasty the Ming pushed them back across the border. The year was 1368 and no one in Ming china wanted to see the Mongols again. At this time the people of Ming Dynasty sat about the building of the Great Wall, which came to conclude making it stronger and bigger. No matter how much labor, time, and money it took the Ming was only focus on making their civilization safer and undisturbed. To save their city and empire the Ming would have to find a way to keep the invaders from passing through the mountain and getting to the heart of the Ming capital. The Ming Dynasty called on their best engineer and soldiers, unlike early dynasties leaving their tasks to the slaves. So they extended the wall over mountains with bricks and towers, and made the wall higher in the places that seemed as if there could not be a wall. He also extended the Great Wall more than 60 feet into the

Trade in Spice Routes and Silk Roads impacted from then to now and the future because of how many more resources countries have, Rome went into debt for wanting India’s technology advances. Many countries wanted China’s technological innovations and then improved it to their needs and wants. Before major trading, countries may not have had their own resources to make weapons, boats, scriptures, or religious monuments. Foreign rulers of India, the Kushan, encouraged long distance trade, had religious tolerance, brought peace, could foster the arts, literature, science, and was behind the development of sanskrit. Kushan adopted Buddhism, fostered great flowering of Buddhist culture, all paid from their control of trade on the Silk Road. The Kushan

The Great wall was one of the greatest creations. It was built in Northern China and has a length of 21,196.18 km. This huge wall has been up for over 2,300 years. Protection at the time of the Ming dynasty was very important. The wall would mean that when the Ming dynasty would fight against the mongols, they had a height advantage. The Mongols would not be able pass the wall, and the ming dynasty could easily tell when the moguls were coming. The Ming dynasty also could easily warn China for battle. The wall helped the ming dynasty prepare with weapons like cannons and arrows.

First, the Chinese began to trade in the 1400s because they wanted to analyze their surrounding field. But then the Yung Le emperor granted to spread trade with other nations, viewing new manufactured goods. Therefore, the trading from Africa to Southeast Africa created a big impact on commercial naval power of China and became the greatest commercial power of all time. Other countries traded goods such as silver, cotton, tobacco, sugar,etc. These trading were managed and lead by Zheng He, a Chinese admiral who managed a series of voyages to these far away nations.

Another pattern of interaction was cultural expression and diffusion . In the early part of the timeframe (200 B.C.E. -1450 CE), there was very little cultural influence occurring . This is because intermediaries carried on the trade between the Han and Roman empires and the two imperial powers really had no contact directly with each other . During the Tang dynasty in the middle of the timeframe, this actually changes. Persian dance and the game of polo are introduced in China as well as musical and clothing styles which become popular . Chinese paper influenced the Islamic and European medieval periods with written works now becoming more the norm in saving and transmitting cultural knowledge such as written bibles, histories, math and other intellectual discoveries . At the end of the timeframe during the 13th through 15th centuries the Mongols were instrumental in the

In history, We often point to the 1970s as the starting point for US-China trade, but I found that actually it can go back to the 18th century after the American Revolution. At that time, Americans got tea, silk, and porcelain was primarily through the British East India Company, but there was also a lot of smuggling going on at the same time. Anyway, it wasn't that the Americans went to China to get these goods (Christina). Later, Americans got well involved in the China trade after they beat the British in the revolution. After the war finished, the British East India Company's monopoly did not exist any more, so the Americans could go to China and they did by driving (Christina). Besides, another element that gave them the financial

All of which were interconnected through the network of caravan routes, trading posts, and trails of which defined the Silk Road and the maritime routes that outlined the Spice Routes. The trade connection between China and the Roman Empire began when Romans became infatuated with the exotic Chinese Silk around the 1st century BCE. Its popularity in the Roman world was associated with the upper-class as it was seen as a royal fabric. The Romans also used it as a source of revenue within the empire. The Romans also received grain, vegetables, tools, artwork, stones, animal hides, fruit, and woodwork. In return, China received glass, which is confirmed in the Hou Hanshu, gold embroidered rugs and cloth, which were considered more of a novelty item than practical wear, and other precious stones and metals including jade, coral, silver, and gold (Thorley 1971, 75-76). The trade between these two empires increased rapidly when Augustus was at the head of the Roman Empire during a prosperous and peaceful time (Thorley 1971, 71).