Transcript (A409-except pd 8), Current Events China/Japan May 30 th!

•Check Mind
Manners/Proverbs/1st
Emperor and Review
•Early Traditions
•Review
•Hwk: Notes/China Test June 2
(A409except pd 8), Current Events China/Japan
May 30th!
nd
• 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
• 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.
•What is the Dynastic
Cycle?
•What is the Mandate of
Heaven?
•What was an
achievement of one of
the Dynasties?
• Chinese: What is
it?/Chinese Inventions
• If Needed: Early Traditions
Notes
• Culture Presentations
• Review
• Hwk: Notes/China Test June 2 (A409nd
except pd 8), Current Events China/Japan May 30th!
•What is the Dynastic
Cycle?
•What is the Mandate of
Heaven?
•What was an
achievement of one of
the Dynasties?