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Bellringer February 8, 2011

Bellringer February 8, 2011. Take out your Chapter 7 Notes Guide Open your book, if you have it, to page 233 Take your map out. Chapter 7, Section 2: Life in Ancient China. February 8, 2011. Objective. Today, we will be learning about life in Ancient China. Life in Ancient China.

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Bellringer February 8, 2011

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  1. Bellringer February 8, 2011 • Take out your Chapter 7 Notes Guide • Open your book, if you have it, to page 233 • Take your map out

  2. Chapter 7, Section 2:Life in Ancient China February 8, 2011

  3. Objective Today, we will be learning about life in Ancient China.

  4. Life in Ancient China • *A social class includes people who share a similar position in society. • *Chinese society had 3 main SC: aristocrats, farmers, & merchants

  5. Life in Ancient China • Aristocrats grew rich from farmers who grew crops on the land the aristocrats owned.

  6. Life in Ancient China Landowning aristocrats • Most Chinese people were farmers. • Farmers paid aristocrats with part of their crops. Farmers Merchants

  7. Life in Ancient China • Merchants were in the lowest class. • They grew rich but were still looked down on by aristocrats & farmers. • *Merchants included shopkeepers, traders, & bankers.

  8. Life in Ancient China • Chinese families were large, and children were expected to work on farms. • *The family was the basic building block of Chinese society.

  9. Life in Ancient China • *Filial piety means children had to respect parents and elders. • *Roles in China: Head of the family was most important.

  10. Life in Ancient China • Men were considered more important than women in Chinese society. • *Men went to school, ran the gov’t, & fought wars. • *Women raised children & managed their households.

  11. Chinese Thinkers • Three major theories were developed to reinstate peace after the Period of the Warring States.

  12. Chinese Thinkers • *Confucius was a great thinker & teacher. • *He believed that people needed a sense of duty to be good.

  13. Chinese Thinkers • *Do unto others as you would have others do unto you – the Golden Rule. • *Confucianism taught that all men w/a talent for gov’t should take part in gov’t.

  14. Chinese Thinkers • *Daoism teachers that people should give up worldly desires & encourages that importance of nature. • *Daoism was created by the scholar & teacher Laozi.

  15. Chinese Thinkers • *The ideas of Daoism are written in Dao De Jing (The Way of the Dao). • *Legalism is the belief that society needs a system of harsh laws & punishments.

  16. Chinese Thinkers • *The scholar Hanfeizi developed Legalism.

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