Turn in homework Study on your own with flash cards Take quiz ma mi mu me mo ya yu yo

1. Turn in homework • Study on your own with flash cards • Take quiz ma mi mu me mo ya yu yo

2. Hiragana Bank も　ゆ　み　む　 ま　よ　や　め

3. Q:　げんきですか。 • A:　げんきです。 • Neg.　げんきじゃない • Q: なまえはなんですか。 • A: わたしのなまえは＿＿＿＿です。 • いまはなんじですか。 • いまじゅうにじです。

4. Early Chinese History China in the Bronze Age: The Shang and Zhou Dynasties Ca. 1500-771 B.C.E.

5. Shang Dynasty1500-1045 B.C.E. • Developed following the Xia Dynasty • -Urban life developed later than in Egypt • -Known for bronze work, technical skill, and artistic imagination • -created writing system based on pictographs • -pictures represented sounds or ideas • -development of trade and commerce

6. Shang Dynasty1500-1045 B.C.E. • Existed in Anyang, near modern Henan Province • Documented in excavated and transmitted texts – proves existence • Key text – oracle bone inscriptions • Shang kings were military chieftains • Regularly sent out armies of 3-5 thousand men on war campaigns and hunting expeditions • War captives were enslaved or sacrificed to, Di

7. Shang Dynasty1500-1045 B.C.E. • Shang King (Wu Ding – 1200 B.C.E.) • Acted as high priest • Wrote questions on oracle bones, interpreted cracks caused by fire – first form of writing • Qualified to offer sacrifices to ancestors and Di • Di commanded rain, thunder, and wind • Shang Palaces • Constructed of rammed earth and perishable materials • Nothing remains today but underground tombs

8. Shang Dynasty1500-1045 B.C.E. • Burials • Interred human beings • Captives not needed as slaves became sacrifices • Others buried with king • Spouses • Retainers • Servants • Volunteers

9. Thursday Homework • YAや YUゆ YOよ • Hiragana Quiz #2 MA and YA • Read Shang/Zhou handout and be ready for a quiz • Red Scarf Girl – Pages 38-71

12. Sacrifice Victims

13. Shang Dynasty1500-1045 B.C.E. • Farmers • Commanded to work for king through violence and coercion • Lived in partially below ground huts • Practiced animal husbandry • Little rights as individuals • Craftsmen • Urban centers • Worked in stone, bone, bronze and clay • Cultivation of silk – worms feed on mulberry trees • Shang era silk recently found in Egyptian tomb

14. Shang Dynasty1500-1045 B.C.E. • Writing • Oracle bones show writing as major element in Chinese culture by 1200 B.C.E. • Developed earlier but written on perishable materials • Impacts of Writing • Records – war, hunting, economics • Basis for later Chinese writing system • Logographic – ideas/one character • Free of phonological change • Educated Chinese could read text written centuries earlier • Greater connection with past - ancestors more important • Allowed for communication over great distance regardless of different dialects • Spread to Korea, Japan, and Vietnam – created basis for those written languages

15. Shang Dynasty1500-1045 B.C.E.

16. Shang Dynasty1500-1045 B.C.E.

17. Shang Dynasty1500-1045 B.C.E. • Metalworking • Allowed for more complex forms of social organization • Prospect metals, remove them from their ores, fashion them into tools/ornaments 2000 B.C.E. • Large scale production 1500 B.C.E. • Mostly decorative items; not weapons • Division of Labor – increased cultural stratification • Miners, refiners, transporters, charcoal production, skilled artisans to create molds, and managers to oversee production • Bronze Technology • Luxury items, improved craftsmanship • Improved weapons • Fittings for chariot wheels • Wheel technology diffused across Asia – not local

18. GIVE ME YO’ MONEY!! • We can’t start extra fieldtrips/special projects until everyone has their money in to me. • $35 • If you can’t pay all now we can work out a payment plan - $17.50 each semester OR $5 a month. • If all is not in by the end of October I will refund those who have paid.

20. Shang spearhead. • White jade blade on a bronze haft inlaid with turquoise.

21. Wednesday Homework • WAわ　 WOを　 Nん • Red Scarf Girl – Pages 100-139

22. Western Zhou Dynasty1045-771 B.C.E. • -no strong central government • -separate kingdoms with local lords • -unstable relationship with Zhou Emperors • -influence diminished over time

23. Western Zhou Dynasty1045-771 B.C.E. • Developed between the Shang and Qiang (near present day Tibet) Cultures • Shared material culture of the Shang • Defeated Shang in 1045 B.C.E. • Separated by Eastern Zhou Dynasty by location of capital • Western – Shaanxi Province • Eastern – Henan Province

25. Western Zhou Dynasty1045-771 B.C.E. • Three rulers credited with the Conquest of the Shang – recorded in the Book of Documents • King Wen (cultured or lettered) • King Wu (martial) • Duke of Zhou (Brother to Wu, regent for Wu’s heir) • Book of Documents • Earliest text of the Zhou, contains speeches and reports of the “just” Zhou defeating the “evil” enemy, the Shang. (writing history!)

26. Western Zhou Dynasty1045-771 B.C.E. • Zhou differed from Shang: • Use of oracle bones was less common • Human sacrifice was less common • Burial of followers to the king declined • Mandate of Heaven introduced

27. Western Zhou Dynasty1045-771 B.C.E. • Mandate of Heaven • Heaven gives the king right to rule • Must rule in the interest of the people • Book of Documents writes of a close relationship between Heaven and the king (son of Heaven)

28. Western Zhou Dynasty1045-771 B.C.E. • Zhou Political Structure • King was at the center of political structure • Head of royal lineage/lord of nobility • Assigned relatives of the king to rule conquered territories • Decentralized government

29. Western Zhou Dynasty1045-771 B.C.E. • Western Zhou Society and Culture • Aristocratic • Hierarchy of wealth and political power • Passed down through family lines (first sons) • Book of Poetry • Earliest Chinese songs and poems • Love songs • Glimpses of court life and cermonies

30. Eastern Zhou Period770-256 B.C.E. • Period of the Warring States 403-221 B.C. • -last period of the Zhou Dynasty • -periods of crisis laid foundations for Chinese thought and culture (Confucius developed thought based on this disorder)