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Ancient China: 

Ancient China By: Tiffany Els

Economy: 

Economy

Most Commonly Farmed: 

Most Commonly Farmed Wheat Rice

Trade: 

Trade Most trade was west on the silk road to Uzbekistan and Turkistan Other trade went south to India

Money: 

Money

Cowrie shells: 

Cowrie shells Shang Dynasty 1800 BCE

Paper Money: 

Paper Money Sung Dynasty 1100 CE

Military: 

Military

Weapons: 

Weapons Made in bronze

Shang Dynasty: 

Shang Dynasty Strong military system Mobilized large armies Had a large amount of workers that constructed defensive walls and elaborate tombs

Law and Courts: 

Law and Courts Laws were “declared” by various rulers and officers according to certain circumstances

Government: 

Government Based on Confucian system

Legalists: 

Legalists Said that strength was a leader’s greatest virtue, not goodness

Daoists: 

Daoists Rejected the every day word Said that the best government was one that governed least

Dynasty: 

Dynasty A ruling family that passes control from one generation to the next

Dynasties: 

Dynasties Shang Dynasty (1766 BCE - 1040 BCE) Chou Dynasty (1040 BCE - 256 BCE) Ch’in Dynasty (221 BCE - 206 BCE) Han Dynasty (202 BCE - 220 CE) Qing/Manchu (1644 CE - 1911 CE)

Religion: 

Religion

Confusionism: 

Confusionism Started by a man named Confucius Born in 551 BCE Grew up to become a politician and philosopher Alive while the Chou dynasty was decaying

Confucius: 

Confucius Born in 551 BCE Grew up to become a politician and philosopher Alive during while the Chou Dynasty was decaying believed that the decline was occurring because the Chinese had abandoned the traditional ways of thinking and living their lives

Buddhism: 

Buddhism 500 BCE

Slide23: 

Buddhism encourages the follower to learn to throw off self-interest through mediation and right living A Buddhist tries to reach Nirvana, or the absence of suffering

Siddharta Gautana: 

Siddharta Gautana Buddha “The Enlightened One”

Taoism: 

Taoism Calls the follower to pursue Tao

Tao: 

Tao Not try to alter nature or force it to do something it was not meant to do Literally means: “The path” “The way”

Writing: 

Writing

Jiaguwen: 

Jiaguwen Oracle Bone Script Earliest form of Chinese writing (1500 BCE - 1000 BCE) Characters etched on turtle shells and animal bones Bones used in royal courts “Oracle Bones”

Writing Pictographic: 

Writing Pictographic Stylized drawings of objects they represented

Dazhuan: 

Dazhuan Greater Seal 1100 BCE-700 BCE Overlapped with Oracle Bone Script Etched on Bronze vessels

Xiozhuan: 

Xiozhuan Lesser Seal Much like modern Chinese script Less pictographic than Oracle Bone Not quite as angular as modern Has survived and is still used today for calligraphy and seals

Lishu: 

Lishu Clerky Script Used during Qin and Han Dynasties

Modern: 

Modern Kunji

Technology: 

Technology

Chinese Inventions: 

Chinese Inventions Gunpowder Paper Compass Silk Printing Calendar

Food: 

Food Noodles Chopsticks

Art: 

Art

Jade: 

Jade Believed to have magical properties Believed to preserve the dead

Bronze: 

Bronze Vessels used for ritual Pots Bells Mirrors Weapons

Silk: 

Silk Very specifically made only in China because the Chinese kept their methods to themselves and told nobody else how to make the silk using their techniques

Ceramics: 

Ceramics Chinese Kilns Shang Dynasty Peek of Ceramics Very high quality

Architecture: 

Architecture

Influences: 

Influences Japan Taiwan Vietnam

Common Features: 

Common Features Horizontal axis Symmetrical

Religious Buildings: 

Religious Buildings Roofs are supported by brackets Front hall A great hall Rooms for monks and the nuns

Homes: 

Homes Wooden structures European columns

Roofs: 

Roofs Curved Believed to ward of evil spirits Spirits believed to be straight lines

Shrines: 

Shrines In the middle of a building For worshiping deities and ancestors Religious festivals On the sides of the shrines are bedrooms for the elders

The Great Wall: 

The Great Wall One of China’s best structures

The End: 

The End