Ancient China

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Ancient China

• The importance of
• Ancient China

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What is the Shang Dynasty?

• The Shang Dynasty is known to be the first
  dynasty.
  The
  Shang Dynasty is a dynasty that lasted from 1760
  B.C. to 1500 B.C.
• People grew grains like millet and rice.
• People from the Shang Dynasty also raised
  animals.
• During this time people used silk and flax to
  make clothes.
• A lot of bronze was used during this period of
  time. The people used bronze to make many kinds
  of tools, cups, and weapons, as well as trade
  goods.
• Thousands of years ago the capital of a shang
  settlement was anyang.
• During the Shang Dynasty some kind of bones were
  used to predict the future, they were called
  oracle bones.
• Rituals were important to the shang people . They
  usually wrote questions on turtle, oxen, and
  deer. They ask questions like what type of crops
  to plant or when to travel or hunt. Next they
  heated the shells or bones. after that they
  looked for any cracks. This helped the shang
  people make predictions about the future.

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what is the zhou dynasty?

• People from the zhou dynasty came from west of
  the hang's great river bend.
• In 1027 b.c., a zhou leaders army conquered the
  armies of the last shang ruler.
• Lasting for more than 800 years the zhou dynasty
  was the longest dynasty in ancient china.
• The earlier period was called western zhou. In
  western zhou a lot of people were farmers that
  grew rice, beans, and fruit.
• Some people were slaves . Most of the time women
  harvested the crops. A very important product of
  the zhou economy was silk. women were in charge
  of producing silk. Silk came from the cocoons of
  silkworms.

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What is the Han dynasty?

• The Han Dynasty started in 206b.c. and lasted to
  a.d.220.
• The first ruler of the hand dynasty called
  himself Han Gaozu which means high ancestor.
• After Han Gaozu ruled a man named wu di became
  emperor. he ruled about 141 to 87b.c. Wu Di was a
  powerful ruler,. He took away power from that
  challenged him .he also built many roads to
  improve transportation .
• The first complete history book on china was
  written by a historian named Sima Qian.

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What is the Chin or Quin Dynasty?

• The Quin Dynasty lasted for about 20
  years,, ending in 206b.c.
• The first emperor of the Quin Dynasty was
  Shi Haungdi. He became ruler in 238B.C. He said
  that his dynasty would rule for 10,000
  generations. Shi Haungdi was a great builder. He
  was the one that order for the Great Wall to be
  built. The Great Wall is one of the largest
  engineering projects in world history.
• Quin was divided into 36 provinces which means
  political division.
• People felt persecuted because Shi Gangdi wanted
  the government to control what people talked
  about and studied. The people wanted freedom.

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What are terra cotta warriors?

• The terra cotta warriors are known to be
  monuments of actual warriors.
• Terra cotta warriors were built to guard the tomb
  of Shi Gaungdi which was carved into the side of
  a mountain.
• The army contained more than 6,000 life-sized
  warrior statue
• None of the warriors were alike.The terra cotta
  are very important to Chin because they protect
  the tomb of Shi Gaungdi. Terra cotta warriors
  keep robbers and other people away from the
  tomb.There are also arrows on the walls ready to
  attack if anybody dared to go inside.

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Inventions of Ancient China.

• There were many inventions during this period.
  Some inventions were porcelain,ink,and paper.
  This were very important inventions, but they
  also invented things like glass, gold, and silk.
• The chinese also started exporting and importing
  goods.During this period of time the chinese also
  started using middlemen which are people who go
  between buyers and sellers.
• The Han Dynasty marked atime of great
  advancements in China.
• One of the most important inventions in Ancient
  China is the Silk Road.

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What is the Bronze Age?

• The Bronze Age the period in which tools and
  weapons were made of bronze.Not only was bronze
  used for tools and weapons it was also used for
  making cups as well as trade goods.
• Bronze was made by melting together copper and a
  small amount of tin.
• The Bronze Age started during the Shang
  Dynasty.The Shang Dynasty also used bronze to
  make bronze vessels to cook their food,

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The Great Wall of China.

• The great wall is a wall in China originally
  built for protection from northern invaders.The
  Great Wall was built by a guy named Shi Gaundi.
• The Great Wall has stood up for over centuries.
• The Great Wall of China is one of the biggest
  engineering projects in world history. It took
  hundreds of thousands of laborers many years to
  finish building the Great Wall of China.
• The Great Wall was built by connecting existing
  defensive walls that had been built earlier.
  Rulers of later dynasties added to the Great Wall
  of China and had to rebuilt parts of it. During
  the Han Dynasty Wu Di rebuilt and extended the
  Great Wall. The Ming Dynasty also made the wall
  a lot stronger and adds to the Great Wall for
  about 200 years. Later under Mao Zedong parts of
  the Great Wall are torn down. After that when a
  guy named Deng Xiaoping groups begin to restore
  the Great Wall.

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What is the Silk Road?

• The Silk Road is a trading route that connected
  Europe and lands of the former Roman Empire.The
  Silk Road has a length of about 4,000 miles.The
  Silk Road has several different routes and
  branches, each passing through different
  settlements. All of the routes reached Dunhuang.
  At Dunhuang the road branchedThe northern route
  led to Baghdad.The Silk Road was physically
  difficult for travel.Bandits made travel
  dangerous.Forts and defensive walls were
  constructed along the way to protect the
  caravans.When the Silk road came under the
  protection of the Mongols, it became safe for
  travel.

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Who is Confucius?

• Confucius is known as Kung Fuzi or master kung.He
  was born in 551 B.C. in the state Lu Province.
  Because his family was of some nobility, or
  high-ranking social class, confucius was able to
  be educated as scholar. He gradually gathered
  around a group of fellow scholars in diciples or
  followers. He set off one day in search of a
  ruler who would welcome him as an advisor. He
  lived in the later years of the Zhou Dynasty.
  Confucius found a place in the court of a king.
  One of Confuciuss anelects is everything has
  its beauty but not everyone sees it.

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What is Confusianism?

• Confusianism is the way of thinking and living
  based on the teachings of confucius. This way of
  thinking and living continued to develop
  centuries after confucius died. Confusianism
  teaches the middle way, which means that people
  should make balanced decisions. Confusianism
  teaches that each person should accept his or her
  role in socciety.

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What is Daoism?

• Daoism is the belief in finding the way or the
  dao of the universe. Daoism had almost as many
  influence on chinese culture as did confucianism
  ,but it did not focus on order like confucianism
  did.Laozi was the first great teacher of
  Daoism.He and other daoists believed that people
  should live in harmony with nature, not apart
  from it.

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The Geography of China.

• China is located in South Asia. Down south by
  India and Mongolia. The capital of china is
  Beijing. There is about twelve million people
  living in Beijing.The first person to declare
  Beijing the capital city was King Wu.Beijing is
  located in the northeastern part of China. It has
  an area of 16,808 km..Another important thing is
  the Yellow river or the Haung River.The great
  river carries abig amount of Yellow silt, which
  is why its called the Yellow River. The Haung
  River has been called Chinas sorrow because for
  centuries floods have wiped out crops and left
  people homeless. People use to built levees to
  control flooding.Another thing is loess.Loess is
  a yellowish brown soil that blows in from the
  desert.The land in the North China Plain is
  fertile because its enriched by loess.The last
  thing is the Tibetan Plateau . The Tibetan
  Plateau is very rocky.You can see mountain ranges
  to the North and South.The Tibetan Plateau is
  sometimes called the roof of the world.The
  Himalayas are located on the southern border of
  the Tibetan Plateau.

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