The map below shows the outline of modern day China. Label the major rivers:
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What was the legend of Lei Zu?
Tang Dynasty: Women preparing silk, Tang Dynasty
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Look at the pictures below. Decide what order they go in. Describe the process of making silk:
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Write a few key facts about the Shang Dynasty:
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Write a few key facts about the Zhou Dynasty:
King Wu of Zhou 周武王
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(403BC - 221BC)
Confucianism
Taoism
Legalism
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Write a few key facts about the Qin Dynasty:
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Opposite forces are interconnected and interdependent
in the natural world
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Shang Dynasty:
Oracle Bones: Oldest evidence of Chinese writing
Bronze casting advanced - used for vessels and weapons
Religious Beliefs: Family was closely linked to religion. Spirits of family ancestors
had the power to bring good fortune or disaster
Family: respect for one's parent's Older men controlled the family's property and
made important decisions
31 Kings ruled over an extended period of 17 generations
Zhou Dynasty:
Mandate of Heaven: justified their conquest. Declared the last Shang king had
been a poor ruler so the gods had taken away the Shang's rule and given it to the
Zhou. A just ruler had divine approval -- or the Mandate of Heaven
Lasted for 8 centuries. In later years, lords of dependent territories began to
think of themselves as independent kings
Confucius: Scholar who urged harmony. Born in 551 during the Zhou dynasty when
it was being torn apart by warring lords. He believed in social order, harmony and
good gov't could be restored if society was organized around five relationships:
1) ruler and subject
2) father and son
3) husband and wife
4) older brother and younger brother
5) friend and friend
A code of proper conduct regulated each of these relationships. Rulers should
practice kindness; subjects should be law-abiding and loyal.
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Confucianism
Social order, harmony
and good gov't should
be based on family
relationships
 Respect for parents and
elders is important to a
well-ordered society
 Education is important
both to the welfare of
the individual and to
society
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Taoism
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Legalism
The natural order is
more important than
social order
A universal force guides
all things
Human beings should
live simply and in
harmony with nature
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A highly efficient and
powerful gov't is the
key to social order
punishments are useful
to maintain social order
thinkers and their ideas
should be strictly
controlled by gov't
Qin Dynasty:
13 year old Qin Dynasty ruler came to the throne. He assumed the name Shi
Huangdi (First Emperor) - used Legalist ideas. They believed that highly efficient
and powerful gov't was the key to restoring order. Gov't should use law to end
civil disorder
Crushed political opposition - all noble families had to live in the capital city
(120,000 families) and seized their lands
Confucian scholars - silenced and murdered.
Book Burning of "useless" books (works of Confucian scholars and poets who
disagreed with Legalists)
Centralization: built 4,000 miles of highway; uniform standards for Chinese
writing, laws, currency, weights and measures
Irrigation projects
Great wall of China -- with forced labor, hundreds of thousands of peasant
laborers
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paranoid and obsessed with immortality (several attempts on his life)
Terracotta Army -- work on this mausoleum began in 246 BC soon after Emperor
Qin ascended the throne (then aged 13), and the full construction later involved
700,000 workers. Over 8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses and 150
cavalry horses, the majority of which are still buried in the pits near by Qin Shi
Huang's mausoleum.
Stillness
Darkness
Cold
Movement
Brightness
Heat
Earth
Female
Passive
Heaven
Male
Active
Tiger
Dragon
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scroll clipart from: http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/
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China Map from : http://d-maps.com/carte.php?num_car=166&lang=en http://dmaps.com/carte.php?num_car=166&lang=en
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Zhou Dynasty War Scenes: http://history.cultural-china.com/en/182History5902.html
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Most other photos, symbols and maps are from Wikimedia Commons
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