2. NOTES ON USAGE
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9. ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES
o Huang He’s floods
could be disastrous.
“China’s Sorrow”
o relative geographic
isolation, trade was
difficult
o natural boundaries did
not completely protect
settlers from
outsiders, invasions
10.
11. PEKING MAN
o Southwest China,
fossil remains dating
1.7 million years ago
o Homo erectus “Peking
Man” in northern
China river valleys
dated to 500,000
years ago
15. XIA DYNASTY Yu
His flood control and irrigation projects helped tame the Huang
He and its tributaries so that settlements could grow.
engineer
mathematician
Based on legend, and most likely fictional
19. SHANG DNYASTY
Fu Hao
• a consort (one of the
wives) of Wu Ding
• a wife, military leader,
politician and shaman
Fu Hao’s tomb has yielded over a hundred
weapons. This is very unusual for a woman’s
tomb, and shows her status as a military leader.
In all there were around 2000 items buried with
Fu Hao. Among these there are 468 bronzes,
750 jades, 560 of bone and over 110 of stone
and semi-precious stone. Over six thousand
cowrie shells were buried with her also – these
would have served as currency in the Shang
period.
20. ZHOU DYNASTYstarted the Classical Age of China
transition to the Iron Age
mandate of heaven
by acting in a virtuous manner, a person could gain
Heaven’s rewards; for emperors, heaven would bless
them with the right to rule
21. ZHOU DYNASTY
Hundred Schools of Thought
Name given to philosophers and
schools that flourished during this
period
22. QIN DYNASTY
• first imperial dynasty (empire + dyna
• united the different states under one
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24. REFERENCES
Beck, Roger B. (2009). World History: Patterns of Interaction.
Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell.
The British Museum. “The Tomb of Lady Fu Hao”. The British Museum.
Retrieved from
http://www.ancientchina.co.uk/staff/resources/background/bg7/bg
7pdf.pdf
Editor's Notes
What are common characteristics of these civilizations?
-arose in river valleys
-located in the equator (climate belt?)
We don’t know a lot about the Indus Valley Civilization because historians haven’t deciphered their writing system yet.
At its height, the civilization of the Indus Valley influenced an area much larger than did either Mesopotamia or Egypt.
“a long ass time” = 150 BCE to 1911 CE according to Crash Course World History
There were women rulers (empress dowagers), too. Not just men.