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 The People in China generally wore tunics (like long tshirts). Women wore long tunics down to the ground, with
belts, and men wore shorter ones down to their knees.
Sometimes they wore jackets over their tunics. In the
winter, when it was cold, people wore padded jackets
over their tunics, and sometimes pants under them. In early
China, poor people made their clothes of hemp or ramie.
Rich people wore silk
 And the Most people in ancient China could not afford to live
in fancy houses. They lived in small houses made of mudbrick,
with only one room and a dirt floor, just the way most people in
the Roman Empire or West Asia or Africa lived, and the way
most people in the world still live today.
 Rich people had fancier houses, and people also built fancy
temples and palaces. All ancient Chinese architecture was built
according to strict rules of design.
 In the Shang Dynasty (about 2000 BC), the earliest period we
know much about, people in China worshipped a lot of different
gods - weather gods and sky gods - and also a higher god who
ruled over the other gods, called Shang-Ti. People who lived
during the Shang Dynasty also believed that their ancestors - their
parents and grandparents - became like gods when they died, and
that their ancestors wanted to be worshipped too, like gods. Each
family worshipped their own ancestors.
 China was ruled by many Emperors who
inherited the throne from generation to
generation.
 Qin Shi Huang (or Shi Huangdi) was the
 Whether he should be remembered
more for his creations or his tyranny is a
matter of dispute, but everyone agrees
that Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of
First Emperor of a unified China, who ruled
the Qin Dynasty, was one of the most
from 246 B.C. to 210 B.C.
important rulers in Chinese history.
 In his 35-year reign, he managed to
 In his 35-year reign, he managed to
create magnificent and enormous
create magnificent and enormous
construction projects. He also caused both
construction projects. He also caused both
incredible cultural and intellectual growth,
incredible cultural and intellectual growth,
and much destruction within China.
and much destruction within China.