1. Intro Video

2. Digging for the Truth

3. You’ve heard reports of an incredible tomb in Xi’an China honoring their first emperor. It was recently discovered by a farmer digging a well.
Xi’an
Alt: land in Beijing, cross smaller earthen great wall (can’t find pic)

4. This tomb, built around 200 B. C
This tomb, built around 200 B.C. and is buried deep under a hill made by the Chinese to further honor the emperor. Let’s go inside and see what secrets it may hold.

5. Digging for the Truth: Xi’an
Foreground fall away?

6. For each of the following exhibits… Write the exhibit name
Instructions
For each of the following exhibits…
Write the exhibit name
Then write what it tells us about the Ancient Chinese and explain why you think that.
For example:
I see a golden bowl which shows they were civilized because they didn’t just eat off the ground.

7. Exhibit A: Statues

8. Exhibit B: Bronze Ring
Early coin, speculation that it represents their cosmological understandings: Universe round – earth square

9. Exhibit C: Bronze Objects
Crossbow firing mechanism and iron bolts.

10. Exhibit D: Iron…thingy
Top View
weight
Bottom View

11. Exhibit E: Wooden Tablet
Wooden tablet with notes (222–209 BC), probably used by a local official to avoid making mistakes when composing official documents. The text listed phrases that were no longer in use and expressions that had replaced them.

12. Exhibit F: Bronze Plate
Legal decree carved on bronze

13. Conclusion Was Ancient China an advanced civilization?
Answer using ARE with 3 pieces of evidence.
ARGUMENT
REASON EVIDENCE