1. Early Chinese Dynasty and Japan
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2. Early Chinese Dynasties
Dynastic Cycles
Social Structures
RICE
Chinese Inventions
Porcelain
Pictographs & Ideographs
Paper
Silk
Gunpowder

3. Dynastic Cycle “Mandate of Heaven”
- the belief that heaven grant the emperors power to rule
Key Pieces:
Order vs Chaos
Basic protections for people
Right to Revolt
Why is the “mandate of heaven” a double edged sword?
Pg 88

4. Early Dynasties Shang (1750B.C.E.-1045B.C.E.)
Written language appears
Bronze work begins
Zhou (1045B.C.E B.C.E.)
Silk production begins
Confucianism
Qin (221B.C.E - 206B.C.E.)
Terracotta Warriors created
united China
Han (202B.C.E – 220C.E.)
Silk Road Trading Network
Paper invented
Civil Service Exam introduced

5. Social Structures Land Ownership
similar to Japan and European feudalism
Tied to the land, working land for a noble
The family symbolized the entire social structure for the country
Male supremacy
Children important for farming
Rice farming is labor intensive
Gender specific roles in society
Civil Service Exams allowed for some movement in society

6. Rice and Millet Considered ‘water crops’
Rice needs specific amounts of water to be highly successful
Projects created to control Water
Canals
Irrigation
Crops supported 60 million people in China by the Han Dynasty (200 B.C.E.)

7. Northern Invasions Xiougnu Chinese Reaction
A nomadic group north of modern day China
Highly mobile and excellent horseman
Related to the Mongols
Constant threat to northern China
Chinese Reaction
Built the Great Wall of China – Map 5

8. Chinese Inventions and Culture
Porcelain – perfected by 700 C.E.
Pictographs & Ideographs
Paper – 400C.E.
Paper Money
Silk – highly valuable
Trade with Middle East and Europe
Gunpowder – 580C.E.
Europeans perfect the weapons over the next 1000 years
Steel
Adding Carbon to Iron

10. Japanese Geography Green equals lower elevation.
Brown equals higher elevation.
1. What are the two dominate features in Japanese geography?
2. How would that effect settlement patterns of the people who live there?
3. How would its geography effect the unification of Japan?

11. Japan - Political History
Clans had political authority early in Japan’s development a clan is a local group of people who share allegiance to each other (often families) Clans would offer protection from other clans in exchange for part the yearly crop. (Feudalism) Social Order is important in Japan as it is in China

12. Japanese Unity 1st attempt in 622 C.E.
unsuccessful
Failure led to ‘Age of the Samurai’ (700C.E.-1100C.E.)
Paid Warriors
Protection from other clans
Bushido (the way of the warrior)
1192C.E. successful unification
Emperor centralizes power
Modeled after Chinese gov’t
removes local clan ties
military power given to a shogun

13. China and Japan Timeline
Due November 14th
Dates gives to you.
Event you have to find in your textbook.
40 points
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