1. Ancient China Unit
The Red Dragon

2. Geography effects on Ancient China

3. Brain MOVE
Write down as many things as you can that you think you know about china.

4. Learning Target
I will be able to interpret multiple maps, and make a prediction on how geography shaped ancient China.

5. Why is Ancient China’s geography so significant?

6. What do we have in the North? – Desert & Great Wall of China
West- Himalayan Mountains
East- Seas (Japan, yellow, south china & pacific ocean)
NATURAL BARRIERS OFFER? PROTECTION

7. Why is Ancient China’s geography so significant?
SUHUPU
Why is Ancient China’s geography so significant?

8. Learning Target
I will be able to interpret multiple maps, and make a prediction on how geography shaped ancient China.

9. Write down this question
Based on the map where is the majority of the population going to be located? (USE Geographic features and compass directions to explain your answer) WHY?

10. What do we have in the North? – Desert & Great Wall of China
West- Himalayan Mountains
East- Seas (Japan, yellow, south china & pacific ocean)
NATURAL BARRIERS OFFER? PROTECTION

11. SUHUPU

12. Based on this map was your answer correct???
Move closer
If you need too!

13. Learning Target
I will be able to interpret multiple maps, and make a prediction on how geography shaped ancient China.

14. THINK!!!! So lets think about this:
To the North we have deserts & Great Wall
To the West we have mountains
To the East we have seas
Population seems to be displaced to the East
Soooooooo……the people seem to be _______________ from other societies.
ISOLATED

15. Why is Ancient China’s geography so significant?
2) Isolation What does isolation do to the people?

16. What does isolation do to the people?
1) Believe that they are better than anyone else, that
gods gave us these natural barriers for a reason, because we are SUPERIOR!
2) Fear of outside world, fear of foreigners, didn’t want to assimilate with other cultures.

17. The Himalayas
The Himalayas separate the Indian subcontinent from the rest of Asia
Within those mountains is a huge plateau, or raised plain that forms most of Tibet
This plateau sits higher than most mountaintops in the U.S.
The Indus and many of Asia’s largest rivers begin on this plateau.

18. “Whoever controls the Huang River controls China.”
According to Chinese tradition a powerful ruler spoke these words almost 4,000 years ago.

19. Learning Target
I will be able to interpret multiple maps, and make a prediction on how geography shaped ancient China.

20. The Huang (Yellow) River
The River starts its 3,000 mile long trip in Northern China
The Huang starts as a clear stream but grows and picks up silt along its winding journey.
During summer floods the Huang spreads silt on the North China Plain to create one of the largest deltas.
The river also creates miles of fertile marshland

21. Farming along the Huang (Yellow)
About 4000B.C. farming communities developed along the lower part of the Huang River.
China’s oldest civilization grew from these farming communities
This civilization later spread to include many regions and groups of people.

22. The Huang (Yellow) River Valley
The Huang makes a giant curve around the edge of the Ordos Desert
As is turns, the Huang cuts through a hilly region
The hills are made almost entirely of loess (a dusty, yellow soil that is deposited by in this region by wind)

23. Learning Target
I will be able to interpret multiple maps, and make a prediction on how geography shaped ancient China.

24. Positives and negatives to the yellow river.
Provides fertile soil
Floods provide the good soil
Lightness makes it easy to carry soil away
Floods can carry the good soil away

25. Controlling the River
About 3,000 years ago, farmers began building levees to hold back the Huang (a wall that keeps a river within its bank)
Like the Sumerians, ancient Chinese farmers also built canals to bring water to their fields.
Loess clogged the canals and had to be cleared away.

26. Growing Crops Farmers grew many kinds of plants
Farmers grew rice, millet (a type of grain), wheat, green onion, and ginger
They harvested grapes, peaches, plums, and wild chestnuts
RICE MILLET GINGER CHESTNUTS

27. Other regions of Ancient China
To the North of The Huang Valley are windswept steppes. (a dry, treeless plain)
People in this area do not plant crops. They herd sheep on horseback
People ate more meat in this area instead of grains.

28. Learning Target
I will be able to interpret multiple maps, and make a prediction on how geography shaped ancient China.

29. China’s Sorrow
The Huang River is called China’s Sorrow because it has cost millions of lives throughout China’s history.
Famine as much as drowning has also been a cause of these deaths. When it washes away crops, it leaves people with nothing to eat
Chinese generals also used the power of the river as a deadly weapon. One general blew up a levee during flood season to stop the Japanese army. His plan worked- but it also took the lives of one million farmers and more died during the famine.

30. Write a thesis statement for the following question:
Exit ticket
Write a thesis statement for the following question:
How does geography shape ancient China?

31. Chinese Philosopies

32. List as many Presidents of the United States as you can.
Brain Move
List as many Presidents of the United States as you can.

33. Learning Target
I will be able to identify and describe, Daoism, Legalism, and Confucianism.

34. Daoism/Taoism

35. Daoism/Taoism Started by a man named Lao Tsu who lived about 600 BC
Is a philosophy (way of thinking) but turned into a religion
Lao Tsu believed that people needed to go with the flow (wu-wei) let nature take its course

36. Yin and Yang
Believed everything in the universe had a life force- a yin and yang-opposites
Yin-dark side- is women, moon, things that are still & death
Yang-light side-is men, sun, things that move & birth
Must keep the yin and the yang balanced

37. Beliefs… Wrong for people to fight
Wrong for government to make rules and laws
Against any kind of rules, diets, etc.
Had theories regarding the body, diet, breathing and physical exercises, uses of herbs, philosophical inquiry and meditation.
All of these the Taoist feels brings a human being into closer alignment with the “natural order” of life and living

38. Learning Target
I will be able to identify and describe, Daoism, Legalism, and Confucianism.

39. 3 Jewels to be sought….
Compassion- awareness of another person’s pain and wanting to relieve it
Moderation- avoid extremes
Humility- modest, don’t brag

40. Legalism

41. Legalism Beliefs
Believed that people were bad and needed to be controlled
Religion wasn’t involved
Believed society needed strict laws
People should be responsible for other people’s actions. EX- neighbors and relatives should also be punished
Scare people into obeying laws

42. Legalism There are 3 parts to Legalism ~fa (law) ~shi (legitimacy)
~shu (arts of the ruler)

43. Fa (law) Laws were written and made public
The laws ran the state the rulers did not
Laws were enforced by strict rewards and punishments

44. Learning Target
I will be able to identify and describe, Daoism, Legalism, and Confucianism.

45. Shi (legitimacy) Keeping order was the first priority
Anyone could rule as long as laws were in place

46. Shu-arts of the ruler Rulers should not be kind
Being kind leads to failure
They need to be strict otherwise people get disrespectful and lazy

47. Confucianism

48. Confucius and Society During Zhou Dynasty
Confucius, a man, felt that China was full of rude, dishonest people
He wanted people to return to having good ethics

49. Confucius's rules for Families
Fathers should be role models for family
Children should respect and obey their parents
Families should be loyal to one another

50. Confucius’ Rules for Government
Do not have strict laws
Have leaders be good role models for morals and behavior
King should inspire good behavior- not scare people into good behavior

51. Learning Target
I will be able to identify and describe, Daoism, Legalism, and Confucianism.

52. Confucius Proverbs
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

53. Confucius Teachings Confucius traveled all over teaching his ideas
His teachings were put into a book called The Analects
Confucianism is meant to guide behavior

54. Learning Target
I will be able to identify and describe, Daoism, Legalism, and Confucianism.

55. Directions
You will be given three scenarios. For each write a description for what a Taoist, Legalist and Confucianism would do in response. Your answer should show that you understand each philosophy.

56. Scenario
You recently passed a series of laws ordering that land owned by peasants should be taken and cleared to make fields for farming. You hear from your advisors that the people are upset and have even started making fun of your eyebrows.

57. Scenario
The Mongols are launching invasions. Rumors reach you that people in a small border town are planning to revolt and join with the Mongols.

58. Scenario
Your advisors tell you that it is time to tend to the education of your people. What do you think should be taught at the schools in your empire?