Download Asia PPT - East Penn School District

• 5 characteristics about yourself
• 5 characteristics about
someone you live with and their
birthday year
• 5 characteristics about
someone who is very close with
you, maybe in your home also, a
friend, an aunt…(you must know
this person’s bday year)
• Please get everything off your
desk except last nights
homework.
• Take a minute or two and read
over your notes
ASIA
CHINA
What do you know about China?
What are some things you think
about?
CHINA
http://mrroughton.com/china.aspx
FIREWORKS
TEA
Chopsticks
FORTUNE COOKIES
I.
China
A. Intro
1. Geography
a. Where is China located?
b. Climate
North= subarctic
South= subtropic
c. Physical features in China
1. E – lowland and coastal
regions
2. Fertile Valley – Chiang and
Huang Rivers
3. N= Gobi Desert
W= Plateau of Tibet
Label the following
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China – orange
Japan –green
India – yellow
North Korea
South Korea
Russia
Mongolia
Philippines
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South China Sea
Yellow Sea
Pacific Ocean
Bay of Bengal
Arabian Sea
Sea of Japan
East China Sea
B. Tang Dynasty (618-850)
1. dynasty: series of rulers from the same family
(ie. Sui Dynasty 581-618)
2. Golden Age of Tang Dynasty
a. after Sui dynasty collapsed
b. Golden Age of Political and Cultural Achievement
1. China grew
~area and population
2. Capital = Chang’ an
~city surrounded by walls
~ variety of food, entertainment, etc.
3. The Grand Canal
a. man made waterway linking
Huang River and Chiang River
b. 1000 miles longest canal ever!!!!!
c. join N and S China
~why important??
4. Tang Taizong (626-649)
“The General from Heaven”
a. 16 yrs old -est. Tang Dynasty with his
father
b. successful general, scholar, historian
c. Importance
1. reform gov’t to Confucius
~who was Confucius?
2. hired trained gov’t officials
3. land reforms for peasants
Family Rival
Li Jiancheng
Li Yuanji
C. Song Dynasty (960-1279)
1. What events led to the Song Dynasty?
2. Changes in Gov’t
– Chinese capital located along the
Grand Canal
 Kaifeng
– Chinese moved capital here after
they lost control of the north
 Hangzhou
 Advances
in Gov’t
 Merit system:
Song Dynasty continued
• Improvements in Agriculture
Cause
Effect
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Scrollwork of Kaifeng
400,000 people lived in the city
Pagoda
Hangshou
D. The Mongols
1. Intro
a. Nomads from the plains of Central
Asia, north of China
b. Fierce warriors who “lived in the
saddle”
c. Khan-
This is Shere Khan
from Disney’s THE
JUNGLE BOOK.
What is significant
about his name?
2. Genghis Khan
a. Born between 1162-67
b. Conquered all of northern
China by 1215 including
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China
Russia
Korea
Persian Gulf
3. Kublai Khan
a. 1259 – came to power
b. Grandson of Genghis Khan
c. Renamed dynasty YUAN:
• Yuan• Capital
of Mongol
China: Beijing
4. China under Mongol
Rule
a. Centralized gov’t
b. Kept Mongol language
c. Allowed freedom of
religion
d. Not allow Chinese to
rule
e. High positions for
Mongols
and foreigners
China Under Mongol
Rule
• Visitors welcome
• why?
• Examples?
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School slippers
240 days/year
½ days on Saturdays
2 hrs/day for homework
3 hrs/weekend day for
homework
O soji:
at the end
of the day
students must
clean before
they go home
Japanese Proverbs
• If you believe everything you
read, better not read
• 蛙の子は蛙。
• Kaeru no ko wa kaeru.
• Child of a frog is a frog.
• 出る釘は打たれる。
• Deru kugi wa utareru.
• The nail that sticks out of the
wood gets hammered down harder.
Japan
• “land of the
rising sun”
500 miles from China
100 miles from Korea
• 3000 islands
• Archipelago
• Definition
• Ring of Fire:
−Zone of earthquakes and
frequent volcanic eruptions
−90% of the world’s
earthquakes occur here
Origami
• Ora:“to fold” gami: “paper”
• Only for the wealthy?
• Samurai would use it for good luck,
wedding gifts, token of affection
• No written directions until 1797
100
AD
Paper making
originated in China by a
servant of the emperor.
600 AD
Paper making spread to
Japan. Paper folding
became very popular.
1797 AD
Hiden Senbazuru Orikata “How
to fold 1000 Cranes”; 1st
Oragami book published in Japan
Heian Empire (794-1185)
• (prior to 894,
Japan culture
similar to
Chinese, why?)
• Culture=
literature, laws,
religion
• 894 CE – All
relations end
with China
Heian Empire
• Kyoto
• Capital of Heian
Empire
• Modeled after
Tang Capital
:_______________
• Rectangle tree
lined streets
The Golden Pavilion
• Wooden
buildings
• Wide streets,
canals ran
through Kyoto
Heian Empire
• Japan Nobility
• Peaceful time, encouraged by
who’s teaching?
• Heian “tranquility”
• Noblemen had special colored
robes to signify which class they
belonged to
• Women?
Heian Empire
• Rest of the
population
• Farmers, fishers,
traders, builders
• Poor
• Spent all day doing
harsh work
• Conscription
• 1 of 3
• Purchase own
weapons
Feudalism in Japan
~economic system in which poor
people are legally bound to work
for wealthy landowners
Feudalism
• Emperor
• Shogun - bafuku
• Daimyo – sankin kotai
• By 1635, daimyo families had to all
live in Edo
• Samurai – bushido, seppuko
• Artisans/Peasants
Formation of Shogun
• Samurai grew in
number; set up own
clans with daimyo
• Minamoto Toritomo
– most powerful
• 1192 – emperor
gave power of
shogun to
Minamoto who set
up the Kamakura
Shogunate – series
of shoguns from
the same family
Japan and the Outside
World
• Kublai Khan
• Who?
• Failed to conquer
Japan twice
• Europeans
• 1543 – Portuguese
ships
• Japanese
interested, why?
Tokugawa (1603-1867)
• 1603 – Tokugawa
Ieyasu becomes
shogun, wants to
restore order and
peace to Japan; 60
yrs old
• Divide Japan and
Daimyo, started
Sankin Kotai
• 1635
Tokugawa Japan
• Peaceful period
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Based on who’s teaching
Economy thrived
Food was plentiful
Population increased
Trade increased
Zen Buddhism became popular
• Emphasize meditation
• Practice good deeds
• Reverence for nature
Tokugawa
• Advancements
in the Arts
• Haiku –
• Plays with
puppets
• Kabuki theater
• Combines drama,
dance, and
music, all roles
played by
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Tokugawa Isolation
(1638-1868)
• Why would Tokugawa was
isolate Japan?
• Afraid Europeans would conquer
Japan
• Outlaw C_______________, forced
missionaries to leave why?
• Japan sealed and isolated from
outside world