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15 Cards in this Set
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what 3 bodies of water are East of China?
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1. Yellow Sea
2. East China Sea 3. Pacific Ocean |
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What desert is West of China (geographically)?
What plateau? What Mountain system is SW? To the North? |
desert - Takliman Desert
icy 15000 ft Plateau of Tibet--> highest in world moutain - Himalayans North - Gobi Dessert & Mongolian Plateau |
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2 main rivers?
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1. Huang He - Yellow River (north) - also called "China's Sorrow" b/c of big floods
2. Chang Jiang - Yantzee - flows east to Yellow Sea |
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what does the name Huang He mean? why?
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Yellow river - b/c it deposits HUGE amts of yellow silt - called LOESS
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Describe 3 of the environmental chanllenges faced by early China civilization?
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1. Huang He's floods were disastrous
2. geographic isolation inhibiting trading with other areas - had to supply their own food and only 10% of the land was good for farming 3. lots of invasions from outsiders (from the N and the W) |
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What is the North China Plain?
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plain areas b/n 2 main rivers of Huang Hu and Chang Jiang
also known as CHINA's HEARTLAND ** the center of civilization*** |
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was farming big in China?
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no - only about 10% of land could be used for farming
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name early dynasties and their leaders, and imp items
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1) Xia Dynasty - 1st - around the HH river
--leader - YU - engineer/math guy (tech is imp) - helped set up irrigation to control river 2) Shang Dynasty - 1st written records seen, palaces and tombs -early city/capital: Anyang - built of wood --HUGE walls surrounded city for protection frokm invaders |
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Describe Chinese Culture
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- family super imp
-women inferior (obey fathers, husbands and sons) - big division b/n nobles and peasants- social classes imp religion - ancestors could bring good or bad fate to family -respected spirits of ancestors (oracle bone rituals) -obedience and respect to elders and rulers and parents |
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Chinese language/writing
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written language diff than spoken language so even people with diff dialects/languages could understand writing
- each symbol= 1 syllable - too many characters to learn (1000 or 10,000 to be a scholar) |
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Zhou Dynasty
(lasted 800 yrs) |
-oberthrew the Shang dynasty
- same culture - new ideas - believed in the Mandate of Heaven - that just rulers had divine approval - they said the heavens sent Zhou to replace the Shangs - imp is government views - heaven sent them their good and bad times |
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Dynasty Cycle
ALSO MANDATE OF HEAVEN |
pattern of rise and decline and replacement of dynasties
- when dynasties become bad, disasters happen, people rebel and put in a new dynasty to get prosperity (sent by the heavens) |
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Feudalism - a way to control the cities
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a political system when nobels or lords are granted use of the lands that belong to the king
In return, the nobles give loyalty to the king, military service to the king and protection to the people who live there |
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Innovations of Zhou Dynasty
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1) road and canals for trade and agriculture
2)coined $ started to be used for trade 3)blast furnaces for producing cast iron were built (for weapons and agric tools)- could grow food better |
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what is the "time of the warring states"
also known as"DECLINE OF LAW" |
late years of Zhou dynasty when the lords of the various noble families started fighting with each other to get more land, and the king could not control it. Contributed to decline of Zhou dynasty
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