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Political
• Ruled by dynasties
• As Mesopotamia, Egypt and Indus were
declining, Shang Dynasty in China was
rising to power
• Zhou Dynasty
– Mandate of Heaven: Justification through
right of God
– Dynastic Cycle: Pattern of the rise and fall
of dynasties
– Feudalism: nobles have permission from
Kings to own and work king’s land
Economic
• Because of China’s
isolation by natural
barriers, early
settlers had to
supply their own
goods within China
• Not much trade
outside of China
Religious
• Family and Religion
are closely linked
–Prayed to ancestors
because they thought
their ancestors could
bring them luck or
disaster
–Consulted the gods
through ancestors
• Shang Di – Supreme
God
Social
• Society was sharply divided
between nobles and peasants
• Family was central to society
• Had arranged marriages
• Group was more important
than the individual
Intellectual
• Shang Dynasty was the first to
leave written records
• Oracle Bones: animal bone or
tortoise shells where priests
scratched questions for gods
then applied heat until it
cracked. Then they priests
interpreted the cracks
Intellectual
• No connection between
written and spoken
Chinese
–Advantage: Someone
can read Chinese without
knowing how to speak it
LOVE
HAPPY
Achievements
• Oldest Shang city –
Anyang built in the
woods mainly from
wood
–Had massive earth
walls for protection
–Found a wall 118
feet thick and 1.2
square miles
Achievements
• Introduced the
chariot – a
major tool of
war
• Skilled in
bronze work,
silk and
weapons
Achievements
• During the Zhou
Dynasty they:
–Built roads and
canals
–Developed blast
furnaces that
allowed them to
produce cast
iron
Geography
• Surrounded by natural barriers
on all cardinal directions
–North: Gobi Desert
–East: Pacific Ocean
–South: Himalaya Mountains
–West: Taklaman Desert and
Plateau of Tibet
GOBI DESERT
TAKLIMAKAN DESERT
PACIFIC OCEAN
HIMALAYA
MOUNTAINS
Geography
• Fertile plain found between 2
major rivers
–1. Huang He (Yellow River)
• Floods left behind LOESS: yellow
silt
–2. Yangtze River
• Flooded unpredictably
–Huang He (Yellow River)
Huang He (Yellow River)
Yangtze River
Yangtze River
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Slide 9 – http://www2.hawaii.edu/~kjolly/151/images/Shng-ora.jpg
Slide 10 – http://www.chinatourguide.net/jiaguwen.jpg
Slide 12 – http://www.chinese-symbols.com/chinese-symbols/l/love.gif,
http://dis.cs.umass.edu/~raphen/Personal/wedding/images/double_happy_bw.gif
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Slide 15 – http://www.chinavoc.com/arts/handicraft/bronze/images/b02.JPG
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Slide 19 - http://chineseartstore.com/catalog/images/5349-brids-flowers-chinese-silk-painting.jpg
Slide 20 – http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/01780/clothing/silk/images/silk-2.jpg
Slide 22 – http://www.chinatour.com/photogallery/xinjiangshow/desert%20view.jpg,
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/environment/pictures/desert2.jpg,
http://www.hickerphoto.com/data/media/171/pacific_ocean_picture_mg5926.jpg,
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/nigl/WebImages/Himalayas_Image.jpg
Slide 24 – http://www.terradaily.com/images/china-yellow-river-bg.jpg
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