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Name: ____________________________ Course: Global Literacy – Mr. Irvan Date: China Unit Day 16 – Technology in the Han Dynasty AIM: SWBAT identify and describe features of at least five Ancient Chinese inventions Do Now 1.
Categorize the following ideas as relating mostly to government OR mostly to social structure: emperors, middle-­‐class jobs, laws, Shi Huangdi, levels of power, President Obama, Confucius Government Social Structure 2. Choose one idea from government and explain HOW it relates to government. __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What is the difference between government and social structure? __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 Name: ____________________________ Course: Global Literacy – Mr. Irvan I N T E R A C T I V E S T U D E N T
Date: N O T E B O O K
The Han Dynasty
In what ways did the Han dynasty improve
government and daily life in China?
P R E V I E W
For each question below, review the image your teacher projects. Then circle the
answer you guess is correct.
Warfare
Art
1. In addition to scaring away enemies, how
else did the kite help the Han army?
5. Which of the following Han inventions
helps artists and scholars?
A. It was used to send messages.
A. paper
B. It was used to deliver supplies.
B. carpets
C. It provided light during night attacks.
C. paintbrushes
Government
Medicine
2. Who did the Han dynasty choose as
government officials?
6. Why would a Chinese doctor stick needles
into a person’s body?
A. those who wrote the best poems
A. to release evil spirits
B. those who were already teachers
B. to punish bad people
C. those who scored well on exams
C. to balance yin and yang
Agriculture
Science
3. How did wheelbarrows help Han farmers?
7. What could the Han learn from the earthquake device they invented?
A. They made watering crops easier.
A. the depth of an earthquake
B. They let farmers plant more land.
B. the direction of an earthquake
C. They helped farmers move products.
C. the damage caused by an earthquake
Industry
4. How did the deep-digging drill increase
the Hans’ supply of salt?
A. got salt water from deep in the ground
B. dug pits to get salt from seawater
C. made storage bins to keep salt dry
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Name: ____________________________ Course: Global Literacy – Mr. Irvan Date: Five Great Chinese Inventions The two above images together show the making of: 3 Name: ____________________________ Course: Global Literacy – Mr. Irvan Date: Independent Practice Would Han people have been able to… 1. sail in boats to Japan and know which direction was east? ________ Why or why not? ____________________________________________________________________ 2. build trains to visit the Gobi Desert? ________ Why or why not? ____________________________________________________________________ 3. defeat invading armies that brought bows and arrows? _______ Why or why not? ____________________________________________________________________ 4. predict when and where an earthquake would happen? ________ Why or why not? ____________________________________________________________________ 5. copy and share books that contained the ideas of Confucius? _______ Why or why not? ____________________________________________________________________ 6. What is something else that the Han people COULDN’T have done that we are able to do today? __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ 4 Name: ____________________________ Course: Global Literacy – Mr. Irvan Date: China Day 16 Homework – Which Inventions Mattered? •
In the box on the left, draw a picture of the invention that you believed most influenced the Han government and empire. On the right, draw the invention that affected the lives of middle-­‐ and lower-­‐class people. Use your notes and the reading on the back to give you ideas. •
Last, write a short explanation of at least three sentences explaining your thinking for each topic. Why were these inventions important to those groups? _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ 5 Name: ____________________________ Course: Global Literacy – Mr. Irvan Date: Extra Invention Information Farming Inventions
Farmers in ancient China faced a number of difficulties. Several important advances made in agriculture
during the Han dynasty improved their lives.
Han farmers were expected to grow enough food to feed their families and to help stock the shared
granaries, or grain storehouses. One invention that helped farmers was the chain pump. The chain
pump made it easier to move water from low irrigation ditches and canals up to the fields. Workers used
pedals to turn a wheel, which pulled a series of wooden planks that moved water uphill to the fields.
The Han also invented the wheelbarrow. The Chinese wheelbarrow had one large wheel in the
center. Goods were carried on either side of the wheel. It was much easier for farmers to push a heavy
load in a wheelbarrow than to carry it on their backs or in buckets suspended from a pole across their
shoulders.
Warfare Inventions
The Han excelled in warfare. Their military methods and new weapons helped them expand their
dynasty. The Han dynasty had a large and well-organized army. All men from about the ages of twentyfive to sixty had to serve two years in the army. Historians estimate that Han armies had 130,000 to
300,000 men.
The army was helped by new technologies. Advances in iron making improved the strength and quality
of armor. Han ironworkers produced a kind of fish-scale armor that flexed and moved with the body.
The Han were among the first people to make iron swords. The strength of iron allowed skilled
workers to fashion longer swords. With a long sword, a soldier could swing at an enemy from a safer
distance.
Another favorite weapon of the Han was the crossbow. A crossbow is made of two pieces of wood
in the shape of a cross. A string is attached to each end of the horizontal piece of wood. When that string
is pulled back and released, an arrow is shot from the crossbow.
The Han invented the kite and used it in clever ways for military purposes. According to one legend, a
Han general once used a kite to measure the width of a heavily guarded wall. Kites were used to send
messages from one part of an army to another. They were also used to frighten the enemy. Kites with
bamboo pipes were flown over enemy camps at night. Enemy soldiers would hear a ghostly noise
coming from the darkness above them. It sounded like “ fu, fu” (“beware, beware”). The alarmed
soldiers often ran away.
6 Name: ____________________________ Course: Global Literacy – Mr. Irvan Date: China Day 16 Exit Ticket 1.
Circle all of the inventions in the list below that came from ancient China. fireworks bicycle seismograph 365 day calendar plow paper gunpowder compass printing papyrus 2. Put an X next to the statement below that is the most accurate. The ancient Chinese created more technology than the ancient Egyptians. Life in China changed a lot due to inventions during the Shang dynasty. Chinese technology mostly changed religion, not government or culture. 3. Explain your response to question #2. Why do you believe this? (Give a supporting example.) __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ Score: 7