CHINA: HUMAN PATTERNS OVER TIME

HUANG HE (aka YELLOW River) • North China Plain

– CHINA PROPER

• Place that Chinese civilization began

• agricultural society– Loess: __________________

• feudal system– high lord

• with army– mercenaries

• controls gov’t

– rest are peasants

• dynastic cycle begins btwn 400-221 BCE

Rise of the QIN Dynasty 221 bce

• Qin Shi Huangdi: means “first emperor”

• Trained and paid bureaucracy extended emperors powers into the countryside – “rule by desks”

• gave farm plots to previous tenant farmers

• maintained upkeep of infrastructure

• Mandate of Heaven Terra Cotta Soldiers

Terra Cotta Soldiers

Mandate of Heaven

The GREAT WALL• Divided the North from the

South• North were Mongols

(nomads) thought to be BARBARIANS

• South were the CIVILIZED Chinese (farmers)

The YURT

The Great Wall

CHINA’S PREEMINENCE• China dominated throughout history• 10th Century most developed region

i/t world• largest cities

• wealthiest economy

• improved strains of rice

• metallurgy

• iron

• papermaking, printing, paper currency, GUNPOWDER, shipbuilding

• though outer areas were relatively autonomous– bureaucracy based upon: ____

CHINA’S three Philosophies/Religions

• 1.

• 2.

• 3.

China’s Population DistributionDominant ethnicity: __________

Satellite Image

20th Century

• European Imperialism

• COLD WAR

Mao meets Nixon (1972)

China Q&A• Chinese civilization began on the

__________________________________________

• China Proper is _____________________________

• Loess? ___________________________________

• What dynasty is China named? ______________________

• Mandate of Heaven = ___________________________

• Who lives south of the Great Wall? ____________________

• ___________________ philosophy was the law o/t land for the majority of Chinese history

• The majority of Chinese live in ________________________

• The dominate ethnicity in China is _____________________