Dates
What were the dates of the Xia Dynasty?
Xia - 2000 BC-1766 BC
Yangshao - until 3000 BC
Langshan - 3000 BC-2000 BC
What are the major developments and activities for the Shang Dynasty?
1. Bronze (made of tin and copper)
2. Walled City (rulers, priest and warriors lived there) 4.5 miles long
3. Shang di - supreme god
4. Ancestor worship - believed ancestors controlled their life and made offerings
5. Burials - included things that they need in their next life, cross-like pit that they were buried in
What is censorship and how did Lisi and Emperor Qin use it?
Censorship is when the government stops the spread of books and ideas. Lisi and Qin used it when the ordered the burning of "useless" books.
When the Zhou Dynasty was falling apart, Confucius came up with ideas that are still used today (human beings are good, and teachable). They are even used in the Christian and Jewish religion.
What are oracle bones?
They could write their questions for god on the animal bones and the priest would find the answers based on how the bones cracked with heat.
What were the dates for Shang, Zhou, Qin, and Han dynasties?
Shang: 1766-1122 BC
Zhou: 1122 - 256 BC
Qin: 316-206 BC
Han: 206 BC -220 AD
What are the major developments and activities during the Zhou Dynasty?
1. Feudalism
2. Dialects
3. worshipped tian and invented mandate of heaven
4. tian demanded good from people
What is bureaucracy? How did Qin reform China's bureaucracy?
A system in which each worker is appointed to a job and is trained for that job, each worker gets a salary. Before jobs used to be passed down to sons but with Qin it could be anyone.
What are the 5 basic relationships and what 3 values are they based upon according to Confucius?
1. husband and wife
2. father and son
3. older and younger brother
4. friend and friend
5. ruler and subject
Values: sincerity, loyalty, mutual respect
What else did Chinese calligraphy express besides simple communication?
It unified the Chinese people. Also artistic.s
How did China's geography (a) affect it's relationship with its own internal cultures and (b) the rest of the world
(a) Mountains (Himalayas), Deserts (Gobi) and Rivers (Yangtze and Yellow)
(b) Mountains (Himalayas), Deserts (Gobi), and Oceans
What are the major developments and activities of the Han dynasty?
1. Seismograph
2. combined confucianism with legalism
3. farming
4. silk
5. pools for drilling
6. paper
7. herbs and plants for medicine
8. acupuncture
List 5 ways Qin unified China. How did these help unify the country?
1. Burned Confucius books
2. Encouraged people to spy on each other
3. Created 36 provinces (government, defender)
4. Censorship
5. Bureaucracy
6. Great Wall
7. Peasant land ownership
Legalism: People are born bad, strict laws and punishment
Daoism: simply society, find the way of the universe by being in harmony with nature and feelings
Moism: Universal love, equal love for everyone, not just rulers and family members
What did the Chinese believe was the center of the universe?
Throne that the emperor sits on
Who was Emperor Wudi and how did he help develop the silk road?
Quian was sent out by Emperor Wudi to explore the West which resulted in the development of the Silk Road (used to trade silk).
What are 3 advantages and 3 disadvantages to Qin's legalistic system?
Advantages: any man could own land, bureaucracy (anyone could get a job), created provinces
Disadvantages: censorship (controlling people), Great wall killed a lot of people in the process of making, Qin could be considered cruel
Identify the importance of Yu the Great.
He invented irrigation and founded the Xia Dynasty.
How did the development of a written language help to unify China?
Writing allowed people who were separated by geological obstacles to communicate through writing.
List the activities and location of Yangshao and Longshan. What did they harvest? What did they make?
Yangshao: Huang He river
Longshan: North and Southeast China
-Harvested silk, wheat, millet, rice
-Simple writing and counting systems
-Potters wheel