| A | B |
|---|
| what is the population of china? | 1.1 billion |
| how big is china compared to the us? | 3/4 the size |
| for what 2 reasons does china have so many people? | 4000 years as a civilization, isolated region, can't moe in, can't move out |
| where is the divider between north and south china? | chang river |
| droughts, floods or yellowe river, grow wheat | north china |
| warm, tropical rivers, farming, like florida | south china |
| hilly mts, cold hot, unpredictable precip | north china |
| farm rie, fruts, veggies | south china |
| rugged, steep, many montains, extreme teps, few people, many minerals | manchuria |
| exterme temps, flat, steppe, semi arid, herders, nomas | mongolia |
| mountains, buddhists, vallies, farming | xizang |
| otherwise known as tibet | zizang |
| desert, oil, muslims | xijiang |
| yellow river valley | shang |
| name 4/5 things that the shang dynasty had well organized | amrmy, king, palaces, temples, irrigation |
| the shang dynasty was monotheistic/polytheistic | polytheistic |
| used oracle bones | shang |
| king linked people and gods | shang |
| name the 2 achievments of the shang dynasty? | bronze, calander |
| what was the biggest achievment of the shang people? | writing system |
| what 2 things were included in the shang writing system? | ideographs and pictographs |
| ideographs were ____ and pictographs were _____. | concepts, actual things |
| civil war dominated period | zhou |
| mandate of heaven | zhou |
| what is the definition of mandate of power? | ruler of power because gods want him in power. |
| who wrote hte art of war? | sun tzu |
| what book did sun tzu write? | the art of war |
| what book is important for business today? | sun tzu |
| 3 philosophies emerge as a solution to warfare in what dynasty? | zhou |
| took over from chou | qin |
| shi huangdi becomes first emperor | qin |
| legalism becomes state policy | qin |
| confucianism banned | qin |
| strict law codes made and enforced | qin |
| roads built to unite empire and serve army | qin |
| emmperor forces chines people to build great wall of china | qin |
| harsh rule, coupled with death of ruler and revolts cause downfall | qin |
| name 10 accomplishments of the han dynasty | seismograph, silk production, civil service exams, acupuncture, water clock,wheelbarrow, buddhism enters, confucianism adopted, silk road, calander, stirrup paper, sundialrs, sundile |
| china's golden age, peace and prosperity | tang and song dynasties |
| foreign merchants enter china | tang and song |
| mechanical clock | tang and song |
| porcelain | tang and song |
| mongol invasion destroys | tang and song |
| navy built to protect trade | tang and song |
| footbinding | tang and song |
| culture spreads to korea, japan and vietnam | tang and song |
| gunpowder | tang and song |
| magnetic compass | tang and song |
| pringing begins | tang and song |
| daoism influences art | tang and song |
| chinese conquered by genghis, rud by kublai | yuan |
| mongols placed in gov't positions | yuan |
| confucianism discouraged, then allowed after mongols give in | yuan |
| chinese culture too strong, mongols give in | yuan |
| little progess made under rule by the barbarians | yuan |
| china visited by marco polo | yuan |
| dynasty ends with chinese revolt in 1368 | yuan |
| too much wealth in chinese society under mongols caused inflation and revolt | yuan |
| founded by ming hung wu | ming |
| peasant warrior who tried to return to china's golden age | ming hung wu |
| huge sailing fleets built, intense trading with world | ming |
| contact cut off for unknown reasons | ming |
| manchu invasion ends this dynasty | ming |
| come from manchuria | qing |
| considered barbarians by chines | qing |
| ruled china and southeast asia | qing |
| tried to keep from being absorbed into chinese culture | qing |
| forbid manchu/chinese marraiges | qing |
| kept confucianism and isolation ideas | qing |
| ended as a result of 19th century european/american influence | qing |
