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CHINA: HUMAN PATTERNS OVER TIME
HUANG HE (aka YELLOW River) • North China Plain
– 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
• maintained upkeep of infrastructure
• Mandate of Heaven Terra Cotta Soldiers
Terra Cotta Soldiers
Mandate of Heaven
The GREAT WALL• Divided the North from the
South• North were Mongols
(nomads) thought to be BARBARIANS
• South were the CIVILIZED Chinese (farmers)
The YURT
The Great Wall
CHINA’S PREEMINENCE• China dominated throughout history• 10th Century most developed region
i/t world• 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 DistributionDominant 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 _____________________