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 ©Made By Liesl at The Homeschool Den

(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 Taoism Legalism 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

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

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 Earth Female Passive Tiger

Movement Brightness Heat Heaven Male Active Dragon

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China Map from : http://d-maps.com/carte.php?num_car=166&lang=en http://d-

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Zhou Dynasty War Scenes: http://history.cultural-china.com/en/182History5902.html

Most other photos, symbols and maps are from Wikimedia Commons

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