Abydos Dynasty

(noun)

A short-lived local dynasty ruling over parts of Upper Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period in Ancient Egypt.

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  • The Second Intermediate Period

    • The capital of this dynasty was likely Avaris.
    • They would also conquer the Sixteenth Dynasty in Thebes and a local dynasty in Abydos (see below).
    • The Abydos Dynasty was a short-lived local dynasty that ruled over part of Upper Egypt and was contemporaneous with the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Dynasties c. 1650-1600 BCE.
    • The royal necropolis of the Abydos Dynasty was found in the southern part of Abydos, in an area called Anubis Mountain in ancient times, adjacent to the tombs of the Middle Kingdom rulers.
    • This map shows the possible extent of power of the Abydos Dynasty (in red).

  • The Qing Dynasty

  • Introduction to the Shang Dynasty

    • The Shang Dynasty (also called the Yin Dynasty) succeeded the Xia Dynasty and was followed by the Zhou Dynasty.
    • Jie, the last king of the Xia Dynasty, the first Chinese dynasty, was overthrown c. 1760 BCE by Cheng Tang.
    • While scholars still debate whether the Xia Dynasty actually existed, almost no one doubts that the Shang Dynasty existed.
    • The Shang Dynasty is therefore generally considered China's first historical dynasty.
    • The Shang Dynasty is the oldest Chinese dynasty supported by archaeological finds.

  • The Qing Dynasty and the West

  • The Xia Dynasty

    • After the final ruler became corrupt, he was overthrown by Cheng Tang, who founded the Shang Dynasty.
    • According to this history, the last of the great Five Emperors, Emperor Shun, left his throne to Yu the Great, who founded China's first dynasty, the Xia Dynasty.
    • This led to his overthrow in c. 1760 BCE by Cheng Tang, who founded a new dynasty, the Shang Dynasty, in the Huang River Valley.
    • Many argue that the Zhou Dynasty, which ruled China much later, invented the idea of the Xia Dynasty to support their claim that China could only and had always been ruled by one ruler.
    • This hanging scroll shows Yu the Great, as imagined by Song Dynasty painter Ma Lin.

  • Rise of the Tang Dynasty

    • The Tang dynasty (Chinese: 唐朝) was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
    • Decline of the Sui Dynasty and the Founding of the Tang
    • The Sui dynasty was a short-lived imperial dynasty of China of pivotal significance.
    • Wu's rule was actually a short break in the Tang dynasty, as she established the short-lived Zhou dynasty; the Tang dynasty was restored after her rule.
    • Explain the events that led to the Tang Dynasty coming to power

  • Origins of the Song Dynasty

    • The Song dynasty was an era of Chinese history that began in 960 and continued until 1279, which succeeded the tumultuous Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period and saw many technological and cultural innovations.
    • The Song dynasty was an era of Chinese history that began in 960 and continued until 1279.
    • It succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, and was followed by the Yuan dynasty.
    • The Song dynasty is divided into two distinct periods, Northern and Southern.
    • The Later Zhou was the last of the Five Dynasties that had controlled northern China after the fall of the Tang dynasty in 907.

  • Expansion Throughout Eastern Asia

    • Under Genghis Khan and his son Ögedei, the Mongol Empire conquered both the Western Xia Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty to the west.
    • To the east and south was the Jin Dynasty of northern China.
    • The Western Xia Dynasty (also known as the Xi-Xia Dynasty) was located in what is modern-day northern China and sat along the southern border of the Mongol territories.
    • It emerged in 1038 but often struggled to retain independent status from neighboring dynasties.
    • The Xia Dynasty also shared a complex history with the neighboring Jin Dynasty, even serving as a vassal state  to the Jin for a period before the arrival of Mongol forces.

  • The Mongal Invasions

    • The Yuan dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China established by Kublai Khan, leader of the Mongolian Borjigin clan.
    • The Yuan dynasty is considered both a successor to the Mongol Empire and an imperial Chinese dynasty.
    • In official Chinese histories, the Yuan dynasty bore the Mandate of Heaven, following the Song dynasty and preceding the Ming dynasty.
    • The dynasty was established by Kublai Khan, yet he placed his grandfather Genghis Khan on the imperial records as the official founder of the dynasty as Taizu.
    • In the Proclamation of the Dynastic Name, Kublai announced the name of the new dynasty as Great Yuan and claimed the succession of former Chinese dynasties from the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors to the Tang dynasty.

  • Kublai Khan

    • By 1271 he had renamed the Empire the Yuan Dynasty and conquered the Song dynasty and, with it, all of China.
    • However, Chinese forces ultimately overthrew the Mongols to form the Ming Dynasty.
    • His greatest obstacle was the powerful Song dynasty in the south.
    • Kublai Khan made significant reforms to existing institutions under the Yuan Dynasty.
    • In 1304, the three western khanates briefly accepted the rule of the Yuan Dynasty in name, but when the Dynasty was overthrown by the Han Chinese Ming Dynasty in 1368, and with increasing local unrest in the Golden Horde, the Mongol Empire finally dissolved.