Bellringer

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

Agenda1. Map Homework Check

2. Huang He River Valley Reading / GRAPES Chart

3. Huang He River Valley Flipchart

4. Exit Ticket / Venn Diagram

ObjectivesStudents will be able to…

20. Describe ancient Chinese dynasties and religious beliefs.21. Summarize the major features of the Huang He river valley

civilization.

Map Check

DO YOUR GRAPE CHART FOR THE HUANG HE !!

Nile (Egypt) Mesopotamia Indus Huang He & Yangtze

Huang He River Valley

Objective #21

Geography of China

Geography Huang He (Yellow River)

◦ “River of Sorrow”

Lots of silt/loess – good farm land (rice, millet, wheat)

GeographyMesopotamia

(Sumer’s disadvantages)Huang He Valley

Unpredictable flooding Unpredictable flooding

No natural defensive barriers

Deserts (Gobi) and mountains (Himalayas)

No natural resources Plenty of resources

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)

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

Achievements Written Language

Iron implements, tools & weapons

Coined money

Education highly prized - Civil Service based on merit and exams

Canals & Roads

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

Chinese DynastiesSHANG – MILITARY LEADERSHIP

ZHOU- MANDATE OF HEAVEN

Objective #20

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

Dynastic CycleNew

dynasty established

Period of prosperity

Decline, corruption,

disasters

Dynasty loses

mandate of heaven

New family claims

Mandate of Heaven

New dynasty comes to power with support of

the people and the Mandate of Heaven.

The new dynasty experiences a period

of prosperity and peace.

The dynasty ages and becomes corrupt, raises taxes and

oppression. Possibly natural disasters

occur.

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.

Dynasties Shang Dynasty

◦ Invent writing◦ Oracle bones

Zhou take over◦ Mandate of Heaven◦ Work in bronze and silk

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

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

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.

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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

Summarize!

River Valley Review

Egypt Terms Pharaoh and theocracy

Pharaoh, mummification, pyramids, religion

Upper and Lower Egypt

Sumer Statements Sumer was a Mesopotamia.

Sumer was a river valley.

Sumer was a polytheism.

Sumer was a country.

Sumer was an empire.

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.

Skills Quiz Review Oceans: Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic

Southern continent is Antarctica. Ant- means the opposite ◦ (anti-; protagonist and antagonist)

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

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

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!