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Early China What is China’s geography like? -What does this mean for people who live there? Civilization • Cultural Hearth – Outsiders seen as “barbarians” • Xia Dynasty 2000 BCE • Shang Dynasty 1500 BCE Family Religion Writing Tech & Art Respect for parents Elder Male Girls married 13-16 -Had to have a boy to move up in status Spirits of family ancestors God- Shang Di Oracle Bones Characters stand Bronze working for ideas Silk clothing Spoken & Written is different 1,000 literate 10,000 scholar Zhou Dynasty • Overthrew Shang 1027-256 BCE • Mandate of Heaven- divine approval for a ruler • Built roads and canals to supply cities • Coined money • First to use Iron= stronger weapons and tools • Chinese values of honor, love & respect for authority fell to nomads Chinese Accomplishments • • • • • • • Porcelain Compass Medicine Gunpowder Printing Paper Embroidery People of China • Han – 92% of population • 55 other Ethnic Groups – Tibet – Mongolia • Urbanization – 90% of people live on 1/6th of land – Building of Agricultural Centers – One child policy??? Modern China • Revolutionary China – 1911- end of emperors – 1927- Chiang Kai-shek • Mao Zedong – 1949- Communists Victory • Economic Change – “Great Leap Forward” – 1970s private ownership