Advanced Placement World History Summer Assignment Contact info: Mary Thompson Kristina Moser mthomp2@neisd.net (school year) kmoser@neisd.net mthompson84 @aol.com (summer) cell: (210) 639-6798 1) Obtain all required materials for the course. • loose paper • spiral notebook • textbook (available at Roosevelt High School (356-2200) World Civilizations: The Global Experience. Stearns
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Rowland 1 Lauryn Rowland Ms. Napp World History AP 24 October 2012 From 206 B.C.E. - 220 C.E.‚ the Han dynasty‚ in China‚ accumulated many political control methods‚ as did Imperial Rome reigning from 31 B.C.E. – 476 C.E. However‚ there were more differences than similarities between the two empires/dynasties. Two main differences were China and Rome’s territorial expansion and their political philosophies (mandate of heaven and monarchy). A similarity between these two empires would be their
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The Emperor Kang Xi There were about five thousand years of resplendent civilization in the history of China‚ and 408 emperors (Kuaican) with forty (Dan) different dynasties were parts of it. Those emperors were like the stars of the Milky Way‚ as some of them were regard as real stars because of their feat‚ but some of them were looked as meteors from what they did. There was a twinkling superstar at the Milky Way of Chinese history. His name was Aixinjueluo Xuanye‚ who was also known as the Emperor
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participants in something that’s new‚ gained recognition and spread due to popular demand. During the political chaos from 221 to 589 that came with the collapse of the Han Dynasty‚ Buddhism started to become a strong existence in China. So in other words‚ during the Tang dynasty‚ Buddhism started with curiosity and after the fall of the Han dynasty‚ it seem as if the people of China yawned for change of good and looked to Buddhism to lead the way. The following paragraphs are going to briefly explain some
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concludes every aspect of social life. After Confucius‚ Mencius and Xunzi also carry forward some new connotation of Ren and Confucianism. However‚ the development of Confucianism is not smooth. According to the lecture and book‚ at the time of Qin Dynasty‚ Qin Shihuang has burned many important materials about Confucianism and buried the Confucian scholars alive. In the book “Mountain of fame: Portraits in Chinese history”‚ it said “In the later Chinese tradition‚ this incident has become the most
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imperial style rule. After the collapse of the Han Dynasty‚ East Asia was plagued with 350 years of turmoil and destruction. This ended however when the Sui Dynasty came into power. This dynasty was able to bring back the centralized imperial rule due to a few successful military campaigns. The Sui dynasty lasted for less than thirty years‚ but it made way for the Tang and Sond dynasties to emerge and become stable and prosperous. The Tang Dynasty reached a period of great stability and peace
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CHINESE CIVILIZATION http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China Wikipedia: China http://library.thinkquest.org Thinkquest: Discovering China & Beauty: The Land of China http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/articles/article/China/ Part I INTRODUCTION The land here is broad and diverse. Among this immense piece of earth‚ one can find both farmer and businessman; mountain and plain; drought and rainfall; wasteland and farmland. It is vast‚ it is multifaceted. And yet these collections of disparate
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struggled for supremacy. It took place in the Zhou dynasty from 403 bc. to 221bc. The period was dominated by seven or more small feuding Chinese kingdoms. It was the age of Confucian thinkers Mencius and Xunzi‚ and the time when many of the government institutions and cultural patterns that would characterize China for the next 2‚000 years were established. Legalism achieved what all the other philosophies strove for‚ unification of China. The Qin Dynasty‚ operating under the Legalist philosophy‚ finally
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W APWH CH. 5 EQ NOTES |Question 1: What were the features of Roman society and politics during the Republic? | |Topic Sentence | |Agriculture was the central economic activity in Republic Rome which meant land was the basis of wealth. | |Social status‚ political privileges
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Leisure 14 Gallery 15 See also 16 References 17 External links Identity[edit] There are 56 officially recognized ethnic groups in China. In terms of numbers however‚ Han Chinese is by far the largest group.[3] Throughout history‚ many groups have merged into neighboring ethnicities or disappeared. At the same time‚ many within the Han identity have maintained distinct linguistic and regional cultural traditions. The term Zhonghua Minzu has been used to describe the notion of Chinese nationalism in
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