Chinese Dynasties Quiz

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Chinese Dynasties Quiz

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Created Mar 15, 2008 in History
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	Laly:	Oct 15th, 2008 at 17:47 GMT		10 points
	You left out the short lived "Shun Dynasty" of 1644. Otherwise a great quiz! Gets incredibly confusing trying to remember which were "northern", "southern", "eastern", and "western"!

	zivko pezulev:	Nov 4th, 2008 at 01:22 GMT		4 points
	I agree with Laly with the northern,southern,eastern,and western it is totally confusing.

	Arthur:	Feb 18th, 2009 at 21:08 GMT		8 points
	Request that Chin/Ch'in be accepted for Qin, it's a transliteration and both are accepted spellings.

	Jcdizon:	Apr 4th, 2009 at 15:07 GMT		9 points
	I could have got more answers if some dynasties were not divided into "northern/southern" and "western/eastern"

	REEEmonster:	Apr 5th, 2009 at 20:35 GMT		5 points
	i regard it as very picky having northern/southern han dynasties as in reality they were never considered to be two seperate dynasties. same with song i believe. also, the so-called "eastern zhou" dysnasty would be better described as the "warring states period" (which of course is not really a dynasty, but neither was the three kingdoms which was a period/war rather than a dynasty).

	zifyoip:	Jun 7th, 2009 at 05:27 GMT		3 points
	"Dynastys"? Also, "Hsia" should be acceptable for Xia—that's the way it appears in New York Times crosswords (which is the only reason I knew it).

	iPwnTriangles:	Jul 25th, 2009 at 23:33 GMT		2 points
	@REEEmonster: Eastern Zhou was indeed a dynasty that comprises the "warring states period" and the "spring and autumn period" that precedes it.

	rcamps:	Sep 15th, 2009 at 23:52 GMT		5 points
	i got some from the song i learned in school. To the tune of frere jacques: Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han Sui, Tang, Song Sui, Tang, Song Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic Mao Zedong, Mao Zedong

	jtsao:	Oct 19th, 2009 at 03:24 GMT		4 points
	Technically, periods such as the three kingdoms etc. don't count as a dynasty, but are periods. If you insist on including them, then split up the separate dynasties to be accurate. It doesn't make sense to lump them together but still call this a quiz on "dynasties". Periods would be much more accurage.

	nitamarita:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 01:33 GMT		5 points
	Not accepting simply Zhou, Han, Song...?

	geronimo95:	Apr 14th, 2010 at 17:20 GMT		2 points
	to seperate the songs.....sloppy

	jefrunner:	Apr 15th, 2010 at 23:27 GMT		2 points
	I was surprised that you didn't except Mongol for Yuan. I remembered it eventually, and I realize that Yuan is the "proper" way to refer to it, but still seems picky.

	QuintFan:	Jun 26th, 2010 at 18:49 GMT		5 points
	I'm a Chinese professor and I can tell you you have created something that is too hard to have fun with. You don't even accept pinyin? Please consider redoing this.

	beatlesfan:	Oct 4th, 2010 at 02:35 GMT		2 points
	im pretty sure song is one

	Zephos:	Jan 21st, 2011 at 22:33 GMT		5 points
	It's very silly to make the "North/South or East/West" distinctions as if they're seperate dynasties when most of that is just geographical terminology referring to when a single dynasty simply changed it's capital and/or was forced to lose a lot of it's territory to an invader. It doesn't make them seperate entities. Also putting stuff like the Liao and Jin dynasties, when they weren't "Chinese" per say. If only because why then wouldn't you have other places like the Western Xia or Dali kingdoms?

	bosox16:	May 21st, 2011 at 18:12 GMT		1 point
	You left out the Han Dynasty

	ILoveSBSP:	Aug 9th, 2011 at 04:46 GMT		1 point
	Nasty Dynasties!!!

	lezerwof0217:	Dec 31st, 2011 at 16:40 GMT		2 points
	accept song for both southern and northern song dynasties

	tomwolf2008:	Jan 27th, 2012 at 23:00 GMT		1 point
	for all people that complain about North/South, East/west, it IS necessary. Western and Eastern Han dynasties are different. (especially with Xin in the middle). Northern and Southern Song Dynasties are different as well, the range of empire is nowhere near similiar. However, agreed that Eastern Zhou dynasties should be divided into "spring and autumn" and "warring kingdoms", because Eastern Zhou never really had any real authorities

	yanks1020:	May 25th, 2012 at 22:06 GMT		1 point
	i have learned chinese history as having a "former han" and a "later han" separated by the reign of wang mang (xin).

	Azrael:	Jul 24th, 2012 at 20:11 GMT		3 points
	Five Dynasties isn't a dynasty. It's five dynasties, hence the name.

	kyeo:	Jan 4th, 2013 at 13:19 GMT		1 point
	Why is there an "e" at the end of five dynasties?

	GlitteringCat:	Jan 10th, 2013 at 19:09 GMT		2 points
	1127-1279 was the souther song not five dynasties period, really though Song should be counted as one continuous dynasty as the line of emperors were all related and the founder of the southern song was the younger son of the northern song emperor.

	someone0:	Feb 6th, 2013 at 06:32 GMT		1 point
	agreed with glitteringcat. that's the only one i got wrong because the answer is wrong! i'm chinese.

	Acid_Snow:	Feb 26th, 2013 at 21:24 GMT		1 point
	I did a short research project on the Five Dynasties period, and even though it was ages ago, I do remember that it lasted from 907 to 960, not 1127 to 1279. The "e" has no reason to be there either.