Early Traditions of China

1. Early Traditions of China

2. Agenda • Collect Gandhi and check hwk • Hwk: (Skip) Timeline Due Friday • Chinese Calendar • Review Patterns of Life • Terra cotta Soldiers Article • Early Traditions • (Skip) Timeline • If time: Project • Review

4. Peking Man • Bones of 45 men, women, and children • Found on Yellow River near Peking • ½ Million years old

5. Dynastic Cycle • History always repeats itself • New Dynasty claims “Mandate of Heaven” and reaches height • After several generations becomes “Aging Dynasty” and loses mandate • Problems arise, such as rebellion, famine, Invasion • New Dynasty rises

6. Mandate of Heaven • Shang Di or God gives Dynasty authority to rule • If Dynasty loses moral character or are no longer powerful • They can be overthrown • Ex. Shang by Zhou

7. Early Dynasties • Shang(1600-1027 BC) • City State, Used Bronze metallurgy, beginnings of ancestor worship and oracle bones, God-Shang Di

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9. Zhou Dynasty (1027-481 BC) • Overthrow Shang, justify with Mandate of Heaven • Book of divination written (I Ching) • Start to Build Great Wall

10. Qin (481-206 BC) • End Warring States Period • Time of Confucius, Daoism, Legalism, Sun-Tzu Art of War • Unites China First Emperor (Qin Shi Huang) • Elixir/Gov top heavy

11. Han Dynasty (206-8 AD) • Liu Bang Peasant that becomes emperor • Exam System/1st form of socialism

12. Emperor Han Wu Di discovers Europe 1,000 years before Marco Polo • Establishes Silk Rte. • Empress Dowager

13. Tang(618-907 AD) • Created 1st world educated civil service • Inventions: Gun Powder-fireworks, Medicines-comb. Indian and China ideas, coal used

14. Empress Wu • Seized power, deposed son

15. Southern Song • Song Central and South China Dynasty (10-13th) • “Commercial Revolution” Great era of Oceanic Trade • Canton, Extraterritoriality

16. Advancements: Gunpowder to explosive weapons, Abacus, paper money, etc. • Foot binding-show wealth of husband

17. Jin(1127-1279 AD) • Invaders from the north (foreign rule) • Confucianism rejects other religions

18. Yuan(1279-1368 AD) • Mongol Invasions • Kublai Khan conquers Southern China (Song) • Invades Japan (Kami-Typhoon)

19. Extensive Transportation Systems • Reestablishes Silk Rte. Trade flourishes • Ex. Marco Polo

20. Ming (1368-1644 AD) • Mongols fighting among each other • Return to strictly Chinese rule • Brought back Examinations • Built Forbidden City

21. Kowtow • 7 Great Maritime expeditions • 1405-1433 • Reached Africa, Middle East, etc. • Size, 517 ft long • Tribute

22. When did Columbus discover America?

25. In 1424 a Portuguese map had the islands of Puerto Rico, etc. on it • Indians in California, Central, South America, and in Maine have Modern Chinese DNA • Asiatic Chickens were seen in America when Europeans arrived (writing). • Maize (Unique to the Americas) was seen transplanted in Asia in the 1430’s.

26. Sloths from South America were seen in China as forms of Tribute in the 1430’s. • Evidence of a Chinese Junk Shipwreck was found in San Francisco Bay. • Linguistic and DNA evidence that a Chinese colony was est. from the survivors. • Massachusetts Stone are a lined in a geometric pattern and have the inscription of a Buddha on them.

28. Dynasty Timeline • Create a timeline of the 8 major Dynasties in China by: • Describing the Dynastic Cycle (2 pts) • State 8 Dynasties (4 pts) • Draw or glue on a picture of each (4 pts) • Date empires lasted (2 pts) • 2 Achievements for each empire (4 pts) • 16 total pts • Due Friday • Bonus pts to make timeline into Great Wall, Forbidden City, etc. Not Jin

29. Review • What is the Dynastic Cycle? • What is the Mandate of Heaven? • What was an achievement of one of the Dynasties?