ANS 302C Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Rogue Trooper, Filial Piety, Wen Tianxiang
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Alien rule: the liao, jin and yuan dynasties (907-1368) 3 dynasties (inner asian tribal people) conquered china - built on achievements of predecessors and gained greater dominance in china each time. Inner asia- scarce population because bad farming land- 5mil to china"s 80mil. Contact with china"s agricultural society helped the population survive. Herders traded animals for products and grain, but when drought caused disease or chinese would not trade the herders had the mobility and military skills to raid. Agricultural chinese saw nomads as incapable of working for their living. Clans fought and conquered each other / formed alliances - great leaders who defeated other tribes could aggregate huge armies and expand (often led to succession disputes) Fluid frontier zone - ethnicity and culture distinctions not clear cut. Chinese in frontier zone often performed service for non-chinese / occasionally intermarried. Khitan, jurchan and mongol states got power from a strong dynasty and devoted vast resources to its defense.
