http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6DfCLqLVUg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erw89kwy8II

Homework for over the break:

• Watch TV, read a newspaper article, look at a political cartoon… anything related to Israel/Palestine– Write a summary of what you saw/read– What is your opinion– 8 sentences– Who? What? Why? Where? When? How?

--1994 BCE-1800 CE Various Dynasties

Silk road

Gunpowder

Moveable type

--1842, Opium War & the Treaty of Nanjing

Trade imbalance with UK UK started shipping opium to China

Chinese fought back

Unequal treaty

--Spheres of Influence

European countries carved China up, took control of certain areas &

demanded trading rights

-- 1850-1864; Taiping RebellionChinese rebellion against European imperialism and spheres of influenceSupported by Chinese Government

-- 1900; Boxer RebellionFists of righteous Harmony started killing white missionaries and traders in ChinaNot supported by the Chinese Government

Both are struggles against foreign influence in China

--1911; Civil War

Nationalists (Jiang Jeshzi)

Communists (Mao Zedong)

--1931-1945; Japanese Imperialism

Rape of Nanking

Greater East Asia Co prosperity Sphere

1949 Mao established Communist Government in China

Defeated the nationalists

Tried to Modernize China

Didn’t get along with the USSR

--1965 Cultural Revolution

Great Leap forward failed

Army of young people helped arrest, imprison & kill millions of “anti-Mao” Chinese

Deng Xiaoping

• Introduced capitalism to Chinese economy

• Reformer (like Gorbachev)

Tiananmen Square

• 1,000,000’s of students protested for DEMOCRACY

• Students were killed, or jailed… it was a massacre