Can you name the Chinese Dynasties?

Years	Name
2070 BC and earlier
2100 BC - 1600 BC
1600 BC - 1046 BC
1046 BC - 771 BC
770 BC - 256 BC
221 BC - 206 BC
206 BC - 9 AD
9 - 26
25 - 220
220 - 265
265 - 317
317 - 420

Years	Name
420 - 581
581 - 618
618 - 907
907 - 960
960 - 1127
1127 - 1279
916 - 1125
1115 - 1234
1271 - 1368
1368 - 1644
1644 - 1912

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Chinese Dynasties Quiz

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Published: March 15th, 2008
Category: History
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Tags: Chinese Dynasties, world history pack, dynasty, chinese

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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	7 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	8 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	4 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	4 points
	Not accepting simply Zhou, Han, Song...?

	geronimo95:	Apr 14th, 2010 at 17:20 GMT	1 point
	to seperate the songs.....sloppy

	jefrunner:	Apr 15th, 2010 at 23:27 GMT	1 point
	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	4 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	1 point
	im pretty sure song is one

	Zephos:	Jan 21st, 2011 at 22:33 GMT	3 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	2 points
	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	1 point
	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