Xia Dynasty

temptress when it came to powerful men. Cleopatra’s story starts when father Ptolemy XII Auletes who was given power over Egypt upon Alexander the Greats death. Oddly enough Cleopatra’s family wasn’t of Egyptian descent, they were of the Macedonian Greek dynasty. However, Cleopatra was born in Egypt in 69 B.C. and was said to be the only one in her family who could speak the Egyptian language (Watkins). One would think her younger siblings would also be able to speak the Egyptian language as…

Religion in China Religion first sprouted it’s roots in China’s grand history during the Shang Dynasty. The people worshipped weather gods and sky gods, but the most important god was named Shang-Ti ("History of Chinese Religion"). People who lived during the dynasty also believed that their ancestors became similar to gods. Each family worshiped their own ancestors. Daoism soon followed, which taught the people to keep peace through compromise and using natural forces ("History of Chinese…

nother outbreak occurs in China. The Chinese people are starting to grow anger for one main reason. They are mad because foreigners are take their jobs. The businesses of China are hiring foreigners because they have better knowledge and technology. Christian missionaries are helping the Chinese people by teaching them new customs. Some of the Chinese people are started to rebel against the missionaries. The majority of the people that went against the Chinese were known as “boxers” to the…

China is made up of mostly all of Asia. China has mountains, oceans, deserts, and bays. They have many different features that sometimes make is hard to do things and other times easy. Some places are the Gobi Desert, Bay of Bengal, Red Sea, Sea of Japan, and the Himalayas. China had a plan in 221 B.C that was supposed to keep out the attackers from the north. Chinas plan was to build a huge and long wall. They built this wall because they did not have any natural barrier that was protecting…

The Great Wall of Ancient China: Did The Benefits Outweigh The Costs? The Great Wall was one of the beautiful man made wonders of Ancient China. It was made out of dirt over a span of a 2,000-year period by the Qin dynasty and the Han dynasty. Though building something of such size and greatness was quite the challenge. There were many hardships involved with the wall, though there were benefits because of the wall as well, such as protection against the Xiongnu Mongols. The costs of the Great…

Alexa Sands Mr. Romano Hon. World History Pds. 3-4 11/13/15 Controlling China with a Communist Government Today, China is one of the largest and most populated countries and makes up one-sixth of the world’s population. You would think such a big country, with that many people, would be in constant turmoil and confusion, but China has proved to be the exact opposite. One of the main reasons for China’s peacefulness today is its communist government, but China wasn’t always as peaceful as it…

U.S Foreign Policy After World War II, America and the Soviet Union were the two major powers who competed for markets and resources. At the same time, communism was taking over in the Soviet Union, China and Eastern Europe. This communist takeover led to the Red Scare and shocked the American public with fear that communism would spread all throughout the world. Due to United States’ desire to contain communism and secure foreign markets and resources, confusing foreign policy decisions were…

The Shang and Zhou dynasty coexisted and originated in China, around the Yellow / Huang He river in the Bronze era ( 1,700 bce ) and went on to exist for nearly 2,000 more years. Though these Dynasties weren’t in perfect peace and harmony with one another, they shared similar values and working methods in which made the two opposing dynasties very similar. Each pillar (social, political, interaction with the environment, cultural, and economics) had it’s own way of showing through in it’s time…

Fessenden ARTH-1300 11/1/17 Annotated Bibliography for “Dog” Berthold Laufer, Chinese Pottery of the Han Dynasty (EJ Brill Ltd. 1909) X-11 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89057248973;view=1up;seq=21 Examines the techniques, skills, and crafts of the Han Dynasty Era pottery. Does so through an analysis of the history of pottery prior to the Han Dynasty, during it, and post Han Dynasty, therefore to present the changes and shifts in cultural,religious, and societal influences within…

Works of literature raise several questions throughout their stories. Each work of art poses a main question that does not quite offer an answer as a critic named Roland Barthes has once stated. Amy Tan illustrates a question that does not completely offer an answer in her novel The Joy Luck Club in which Tan narrates the lives of four different mothers who are part of this club which meets to eat food and discuss things which brought all of them joy. The mothers emigrated from China and those…