1. Bellringer

2. Unit 2 test Oct 15/16th!!!!!!!

3. Agenda Map Homework Check Huang He River Valley Reading / GRAPES Chart
Huang He River Valley Flipchart
Exit Ticket / Venn Diagram

4. Objectives Students will be able to…
Describe ancient Chinese dynasties and religious beliefs.
Summarize the major features of the Huang He river valley civilization.

5. Do your GRAPE Chart for the Huang he !!
Map Check
Do your GRAPE Chart for the Huang he !!

6. Nile (Egypt) Mesopotamia Indus Huang He & Yangtze

7. Objective #21
Huang He River Valley

8. Geography of China

10. Geography Huang He (Yellow River)
“River of Sorrow”
Lots of silt/loess – good farm land (rice, millet, wheat)

11. (Sumer’s disadvantages)
Geography
Mesopotamia
(Sumer’s disadvantages)
Huang He Valley
Unpredictable flooding
No natural defensive barriers
Deserts (Gobi) and mountains (Himalayas)
No natural resources
Plenty of resources

12. Geography Add this note:
China is isolated from the other River Valleys
Mesopotamia trades with India and Egypt
Cities – Anyang, Luoyang, Zhengshou, Yangzhou
(houses built with timber-frame & clay/straw walls)

13. Religion Early culture was polytheistic
Ancestor worship – believed ancestors could cause them either good or bad luck
Believed in life after death (buried with things they might need in afterlife)
Oracle bones

14. Achievements Canals & Roads Written Language Coined money
Iron implements, tools & weapons
Education highly prized
- Civil Service based on merit and exams

15. Achievements Continued
Music and the arts important part of culture
Ceramics (light but strong)
Jade and Bronze craftsmanship still renowned
Developed secret method of of making silk
Developed paper
Water wheel to grind grain
Astronomy

16. Shang – Military Leadership Zhou- mandate of heaven
Objective #20
Chinese Dynasties
Shang – Military Leadership
Zhou- mandate of heaven

17. Vocabulary Prosperity
Mandate of Heaven – belief that the gods choose the rulers
Dynastic Cycle – process by which dynasties gain and lose power in China
Fuedalism – a political system in which nobles/lords are granted the use of lands that legally belong to the king/emperor. They have use of the land (and the people on it) in return for loyalty and military service as well as protecting the people who live on their estates

18. Dynastic Cycle
New dynasty established
Period of prosperity
Decline, corruption, disasters
Dynasty loses mandate of heaven
New family claims Mandate of Heaven
As a result of these events, the dynasty is seen to have lost the Mandate of Heaven.
Revolution becomes justified, and a new family claims to have received the Mandate and fights the old dynasty.
The new dynasty experiences a period of prosperity and peace.
New dynasty comes to power with support of the people and the Mandate of Heaven.
The dynasty ages and becomes corrupt, raises taxes and oppression. Possibly natural disasters occur.

19. Dynasties Shang Dynasty Zhou take over Invent writing Oracle bones
Mandate of Heaven
Work in bronze and silk

20. Economics Agriculture Based (wheat, millet, rice, fruit)
Large worker/peasant and slave classes for labor
Roads and Canals to support commerce and trade within empire
Coined money
Key luxury products included jewelry & silks

21. Society Strength of Family Relationships - patriarchal
Large peasant underclass (feudalism)
Strict Social Classes
Merchants not respected, unlike Mesopotamia, why?
Women – not equal – considered inferior
arranged marriages (13-16),
main job was to have sons for the family
Family life central to society

22. Summary
Overall the Chinese of the Huang He civilization was one of the most advanced civilizations of it’s time period.
The invented many items still used today such as the water wheel, silk, and paper.
The were the first to have a dynasty for government.

23. Huang He
___________ G R A P E S

24. Cartoons!
Make a cartoon to illustrate the Dynastic Cycle, with one partner
Draw pictures and write captions in each box
Cut out boxes and arrange the panels on construction paper
You can draw arrows and add text

25. Summarize!

26. River Valley Review

27. Egypt Terms Pharaoh and theocracy
Pharaoh, mummification, pyramids, religion
Upper and Lower Egypt

29. Sumer Statements Sumer was a Mesopotamia. Sumer was a river valley.
Sumer was a polytheism.
Sumer was a country.
Sumer was an empire.

30. Sumer Statements Mesopotamia is in Sumer.
Each city in Sumer had its own river valley.
There is more than one Fertile Crescent.
Sumerians spoke in cuneiform.

31. Skills Quiz Review Oceans: Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic
Southern continent is Antarctica. Ant- means the opposite
(anti-; protagonist and antagonist)

32. Skills Quiz Review
We are in 2010 AD. You could also say 2010 CE. AD = CE
BCE = BC
Before Common Era; Before Christ. Refers to same time period

33. Skills Quiz Review BC is before AD. BCE is same as BC, not before BCE.
There is no before BC
BC works like negative numbers – count down to 0, then up in AD
600 BC happened before 400 BC
400 BC happened before 600 AD

34. Review Time! First, complete the India-China map
Then, get a review packet
Complete all pages!
Take it with you to study!
Due the day of the test!