Transcript CHINA: HUMAN PATTERNS OVER TIME

CHINA: HUMAN PATTERNS
OVER TIME
HUANG HE (aka YELLOW
• North China Plain
River)
– CHINA PROPER
• Place that Chinese civilization
began
• agricultural society
– Loess: __________________
• feudal system
– high lord
• with army
– mercenaries
• controls gov’t
– rest are peasants
• dynastic cycle begins btwn
400-221 BCE
Rise of the QIN Dynasty 221 bce
• Qin Shi Huangdi: means
“first emperor”
• Trained and paid
bureaucracy extended
emperors powers into the
countryside
– “rule by desks”
• gave farm plots to previous
tenant farmers
Terra Cotta Soldiers
• maintained upkeep of
infrastructure
Terra Cotta Soldiers
• Mandate of Heaven
Mandate of Heaven
The GREAT WALL
The Great Wall
The YURT
• Divided the North from the
South
• North were Mongols
(nomads) thought to be
BARBARIANS
• South were the CIVILIZED
Chinese (farmers)
CHINA’S PREEMINENCE
• China dominated throughout
history
• 10th Century most developed
region i/t world
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largest cities
wealthiest economy
improved strains of rice
metallurgy
iron
papermaking, printing, paper
currency, GUNPOWDER,
shipbuilding
• though outer areas were
relatively autonomous
– bureaucracy based upon: ____
CHINA’S three
Philosophies/Religions
• 1.
• 2.
• 3.
China’s Population Distribution
Dominant ethnicity: __________
Satellite Image
20th Century
• European Imperialism
• COLD WAR
Mao meets Nixon (1972)
China Q&A
• Chinese civilization began on the
__________________________________________
• China Proper is _____________________________
• Loess? ___________________________________
• What dynasty is China named? ______________________
• Mandate of Heaven = ___________________________
• Who lives south of the Great Wall? ____________________
• ___________________ philosophy was the law o/t land for the
majority of Chinese history
• The majority of Chinese live in ________________________
• The dominate ethnicity in China is _____________________