Chapter 7 Section 1 Geography and Early China

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Chapter 7 Section 1Geography and Early China
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Chinas Physical Geography

• China covers an area of nearly 4 million sq.
  miles, about the same size as the United States.
  Chinas boundaries isolated it from the rest of
  the world for thousands of years. What are
  Chinas physical boundaries? (look in your
  book,pg 182)

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Physical Boundaries

• Mountains
• Deserts
• Oceans
• Characteristics rivers, plains, plateaus

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Physical Map of China
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Regions of China

• What is the weather like in the different regions
  of China?
• Northwest
• Northeast -Southeast

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Weather

• Northwest
• Northeast
• Southeast

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Huang He RiverWhat is its other name?

• What was important about the Huang He river?
• It flooded and layered the ground with silt.

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The Chang Jiang River

• What did the Chang Jaing River do?
• It helped connect eastern and western China.
• Flooded and provided silt.

What is another name for this river?
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Flooded rivers in China left silt deposits.

• What happened as a result of this?
• Farmers were able to farm
• Along the Huang He they farmed cereals like
  millet and wheat
• Along the Chang Jaing they farmed rice

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Civilization Begins in China
Huang He river produced farming
and civilizations.
Mountains and desert made travel difficult
and isolated China.

• Good farming
• Lg. amts. of rain
• Rice is main crop

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Summary
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The Xia (Shah) Dynasty What was significant
about the Xia dynasty?
Dynasty series of rulers from the same
family. Their stories helped explain geography,
and told about how kings worked with people to
help solve problems.
Yu the Great
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Shang Dynasty
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Shang Dynasty

• How was their social hierarchy organized?
• What was significant about the oracle bones?
• What advances did the Shang dynasty make?

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Check your Shang facts!!!

• The social order under the Shang Dynasty was
  nobles, artisans, farmers, slaves.
• Priests carved questions about the future on
  bones or shells which were heated, causing them
  to crack, Priests believed they could predict the
  future by interpreting cracks on oracle bones.
• The Shang were the first people in China to
  develop a writing system.

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China Today
Large cities Of China
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Summary
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Huang He River