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• 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 • Bones of 45 men, • women, and children • Found on Yellow River near Peking • ½ Million years old • 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 • 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 • Shang (1600-1027 BC) •City State, Used Bronze metallurgy, beginnings of ancestor worship and oracle bones, God-Shang Di Video • Zhou Dynasty (1027-481 BC) •Overthrow Shang, justify with Mandate of Heaven •Book of divination written (I Ching) •Start to Build •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 •Han Dynasty (206-8 AD) •Liu Bang Peasant that becomes emperor st System/1 •Exam form of socialism •Emperor Han Wu Di discovers Europe 1,000 years before Marco Polo •Establishes Silk Rte. •Empress Dowager •Tang (618-907 AD) st •Created 1 world educated civil service •Inventions: Gun Powder-fireworks, Medicines-comb. Indian and China ideas, coal used •Empress Wu •Seized power, deposed son •Southern Song •Song Central and South th China Dynasty (10-13 ) •“Commercial Revolution” Great era of Oceanic Trade •Canton, Extraterritoriality •Advancements: Gunpowder to explosive weapons, Abacus, paper money, etc. •Foot bindingshow wealth of husband •Jin (1127-1279 AD) •Invaders from the north (foreign rule) •Confucianism rejects other religions •Yuan (1279-1368 AD) •Mongol Invasions •Kublai Khan conquers Southern China (Song) •Invades Japan (Kami-Typhoon) •Extensive Transportation Systems •Reestablishes Silk Rte. Trade flourishes •Ex. Marco Polo •Ming (1368-1644 AD) •Mongols fighting among each other •Return to strictly Chinese rule •Brought back Examinations •Built Forbidden City •Kowtow •7 Great Maritime expeditions •1405-1433 •Reached Africa, Middle East, etc. •Size, 517 ft long •Tribute • 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. • 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. • 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. •What is the Dynastic Cycle? •What is the Mandate of Heaven? •What was an achievement of one of the Dynasties?