Chapter 5

Society and Inequality in Eurasia/North Africa (217):

• French, Russian, and Chinese
• Three revolutions challenged and destroyed ancient monarchies and class hierarchies
• Abolitionist Movement - attacked slavery
• Women's Movement - relationship between the sexes
• Divided class lines

Society and the State in China (218):

1. Find administrators loyal to the central state rather than to their own families and regions
2. Han Dynasty - established in 200 BCE
3. Rulers required each province to send men of promise to the capital
4. Tang Dynasty - making bureaucracy meant being entered into high privileges
5. Lower class still learned how to be sophisticated and was taught about manners

LANDLORDS:

• Quin Dynasty - unified china in 210 BCE
• Land was owned my small farmers (peasants)
• Didn't have to pay taxes - raising the taxes for peasants
• Create own military forces
• Collapse od Wang Man's reforms and his assassination in 23 CE

PEASANTS:

• Small households
• Famines, floods, droughts, hail, and pests can occur at anytime which made in difficult for the peasants to live
• Yellow Turban Rebellion - "Great Place" golden age of equality

MERCHANTS:

• Unproductive
• Unfair with products
• Could not wear silk clothing, ride horses, or carry arms
• Wealthy - later on in the section