Asia for Educators. Columbia University. This period of Chinese history, from roughly 600-1600 C.E., is a period of stunning development in China. From the Tang (discussed in the unit on the Tang Dynasty) through the "pre-modern" commercial and urban development of the Song, ca.
Explanation:
From the Qin Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty (221 B.C.- A.D. 1840), the Chinese government divided Chinese people into four classes: landlord, peasant, craftsmen, and merchant. Landlords and peasants constituted the two major classes, while merchant and craftsmen were collected into the two minor.
The Song dynasty (960-1279) follows the Tang (618-906) and the two together constitute what is often called "China's Golden Age."
The use of paper money, the introduction of tea drinking, and the inventions of gunpowder, the compass, and printing all occur under the Song. (The fact that the dynasty spans the year 1000 may make it easier for students to locate these developments in time.)
While short-lived, the Sui Dynasty built a strong foundation for the great achievements of the next dynasty, the Tang
(tahng). The Tang Dynasty ruled for nearly 300 years (618–907). The Tang emperor who began these achievements was Tang Taizong. His brilliant reign
lasted from 626 to 649.
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For more than a decade after its passage,
the Sherman Act was invoked only rarely
against industrial monopolies, and then not
successfully, chiefly because of narrow
judicial interpretations of what constitutes
trade or commerce among states. When it
was first passed, the Sherman Antitrust Act
was largely ineffective at stopping
industrial monopolies. Courts at the time
tended to hold a very narrow view of what
constituted "trade or commerce among
states," and most companies were not held
liable under the act. For more than a
decade after its passage, the Sherman
Antitrust Act was invoked only rarely
against industrial monopolies, and then not
successfully. Ironically, its only effective
use for a number of years was against
labor unions, which were held by the courts
to be illegal combinations.