Early China

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Early China

• What is Chinas geography like?
• -What does this mean for people who live there?

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Civilization

• Cultural Hearth
• Outsiders seen as barbarians
• Xia Dynasty 2000 BCE
• Shang Dynasty 1500 BCE

Family Religion Writing Tech Art
Respect for parents Elder Male Girls married 13-16 -Had to have a boy to move up in status Spirits of family ancestors God- Shang Di Oracle Bones Characters stand for ideas Spoken Written is different 1,000 literate 10,000 scholar Bronze working Silk clothing

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Zhou Dynasty

• Overthrew Shang 1027-256 BCE
• Mandate of Heaven- divine approval for a ruler
• Built roads and canals to supply cities
• Coined money
• First to use Iron stronger weapons and tools
• Chinese values of honor, love respect for
  authority fell to nomads

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Chinese Accomplishments

• Porcelain
• Compass
• Medicine
• Gunpowder
• Printing
• Paper
• Embroidery

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People of China

• Han
• 92 of population
• 55 other Ethnic Groups
• Tibet
• Mongolia
• Urbanization
• 90 of people live on 1/6th of land
• Building of Agricultural Centers
• One child policy???

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Modern China

• Revolutionary China
• 1911- end of emperors
• 1927- Chiang Kai-shek
• Mao Zedong
• 1949- Communists Victory
• Economic Change
• Great Leap Forward
• 1970s private ownership

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