Ap World History Dbq Essay

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The 6th century marks the end of Classical Antiquity and the beginning of Middle Ages, many cultures and leaders were affected during this time period. In particular, Europe, Asia and Central America were affected by this century.
Towards the beginning of the 6th century, in northern China, the power within the Tuoba Wei family was passed to a dowager queen, Queen Hu, who was a devout Buddhist. Queen Hu, despite her Buddhism, turned to an old monarchist system. She executed people who she was unsatisfied with, aslo forcing a rivalry into a convent and then executing them. Eventually ordering her own son to death. Later that century in 581 A.D. northern China regains Chinese rule. Yan Ch’ien dies in 580 A.D. for a very unusual reason and his son, Yang Jian, replaces him as The Xiongnu chieftain. Yang Jian takes the name Emperor Wen and orders fifty-nine people to be murdered to stop rivalry. Eight years later, Emperor Wen gains the power of the south and after 271 years, china was united again. To sum up Jian as the ruler, he rebuilds the capital at Chang’an, repairs and expands the Great Wall, and supervises the construction of a canal system
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Clovis and around 3000 of his soldiers were baptized to show their faith. The Franks were a originally Germanic tribe, ruled by Clovis who belonged to the Merovingian dynasty. In 507, the Catholic Franks defeated the Visigoths and slayed their king, Alaric II. This action drove them to spain. 4 years later, the Frank’s king, King Clovis, dies and his land was divided among his four sons. This begun the rule of Europe’s “Merovingian” kings. In 524, one of Clovis’s sons ,Clodomir, dies and two of his other sons, clotaire and childebert, murder his children and take his land. In 534, Clotaire and Childebert take over the kingdom of Burgundy, including the cities for Lyons and Geneva. At the near end of this century, the king of the Visigoths converts to Catholicism, and eventually his nation follows his