East Asia: History and Culture

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East Asia History and Culture

• Page 66, Chinas History
• Get your computer, log in, and then leave it
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Warm Up

• Define the following
• Dynasty
• Taoism
• Confucianism
• Commune
• Puppet Government

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China Early History

• 6000 BC- Settlements along Chang
• 3000 BC- Small farming villages along Huang
• 1700BC-1100 BC- Shang Dynasty
• Domestication
• Irrigation
• Bronze work
• Chopsticks

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China Early History

• Qin Dynasty (200BC)- Great Wall begun
• Tang and Sung Dynasties-
• China unified
• Culture flourishes
• 1200s- China overthrown by Mongols

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China Modern History

• Silk Road
• 1500s- Europeans arrive by sea
• 1800s- China loses power to foreigners
• Hong Kong (British, 1842)
• Taiwan (Japan, 1895)
• 1912- Last Dynasty overthrown

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China Modern History

• Chinese Nationalist Party and Chinese Communist
  Party fight for power in 1930s
• Japan takes over (WW2)
• Communists win control- Mao Zedong

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China Modern History

• Communism
• Government controls economy
• Private property siezed
• Collective farming

• Great Leap Forward (1958)
• Cultural Revolution (1966-76)
• Some reform since 70s

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China Culture

• Mostly Han Chinese
• Speak Mandarin
• Written Chinese uses pictograms, over 50,000
  characters

• Major religions
• Buddhism
• Taoism- natural order to the universe
• Confucianism (ethical code)