2013 Social Studies 2nd Semester Outline Indus Valley Civilizations: 2500-1500 BCE Indus River Modern-Day Pakistan Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro (Twin capitals) First to cultivate and weave cotton Discovered in 1922 First city planning in history: grid pattern‚ uniform building style‚ rectangular city blocks‚ plumbing Barriers Seals not deciphered Figurines in religion Sacred animals Polytheistic Economy agricultural Trade with Mesopotamia Aryans invade around 1500 BCE‚ superior technology
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Ancient China was successful. One of the many examples for it is if you count the years from the Xia Dynasty to the Han Dynasty its 2525 years which is incredible considering that at the time there were a lot of wars going on at the time. Another point to mention is that they had some incredible milestones some of which are things that inspired inventions still used today. While there were so many breakthroughs the two I believe that are the biggest was The Silk Road and The Great Wall of China.
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monastery‚ and art relics to promote it. For example‚ King Ashoka‚ ruler of India in the mid- Third centuries‚ promoted Buddhism in India and built The Great Stupa in Sanchi‚ India as a Buddhist monastery. Another great example is the burial mound of Qin Shi Huangdi‚ who believed in afterlife. The burial mound was constructed for preparation for the kings resting place and Molds and sculptures were made to create life size terra-cotta soldiers to accompany the
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religion or philosophies in the case of Han dynasty in imperial administration. The Persians and Greeks heavily influenced the Romans in their management of imperial administration. During the Qin dynasty‚ ideas and attributes of those empires may have diffused to the Han dynasty. Like Persia and the Qin dynasty‚ Imperial Rome and Han dynasty both had standardized currency‚ weights‚ measurements‚ and system of centralized government with a strong ruler. The emperor was the central authority with
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Though many empires have come and gone some seem to endure through time longer than others while some dissolve even before they have a chance to get established. To understand this discrepancy‚ I will endeavor to show how an empires ability to establish standardization in every aspect of life and governance determines its longevity and stability and why large empires like the Hellenistic empire of Alexander the Great in contrast did not endure after his death. When considering the longest ruling
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Chapter 1 ● Mesopotamia (TigrisEuphrates) ○ 80002000 BCE ■ Neolithic (New Stone Age) ■ Earliest Agriculture ○ City States (walled city and hinterland) sprung up around rivers ■ Citystates= characteristic of mesopotamia‚ Archaic and Classical Greece‚ Phoenicia‚ and early Italy ○ People living here= Sumerians ■ In Southern Mesopotamia by 5000 BCE ■ Responsible for making irrigation technology‚ cuneiform‚ religious concepts found in Mesopotamian culture ○ Lugal=Big Man (their leader‚
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About Chinese medicine (Pien Tze Huang) In 1555‚ during the Ming dynasty imperial Zong Shi‚ a royal physician fled to the city of Zhangzhou (Fujian province) because it is not satisfied with the emperor was very cruel. The physician was settled in a temple located in the East Pushan under Zhangzhou City as a monk. He witnessed the suffering and misery of the people due to incurable disease so that he felt compelled to provide aid to all residents. By using a secret potion from the palace‚ he finally
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combined mythologies and his amazing imagination to express the emotion of revered and loved in country land. The entire distribution of “Shu-dao Nan” was followed the timeline‚ from ancient times to the present (Tang Dynasty)‚ and the space‚ from Qin to Shu. In this paper‚ will focus on analyzing the time and space metaphors in “Shu-dao Nan”. At the beginning‚ LI Bai dated back to the remote history‚ cited the founding mythologies of “Can Cong” and “Yu Fu” that they were the legendary kings of
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AP World History Chapter 5 – Age of Empires: Rome & Han China Med Name:_______________________ Chapter Objectives: When you finish studying this chapter each student should: Be able to analyze the causes of the rise‚ the stability‚ and the decline of the Roman and Han empires in terms of their respective geographical locations‚ natural resources‚ economic base‚ administrative structures‚ and ideological systems. Understand the political evolution of the Roman state from the Republic to the
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Mao Tse Tung‚ also known as Chairman Mao‚ December 26‚ 1893 – September 9‚ 1976 had very controversial ways and accomplishments in his rule. He is said to be the founding father of the modernization of the Republic of China‚ as well as even being compared to very powerful dictators such as Joseph Stalin and even Adolf Hitler. He was the chairman of the Communist Party in China. He transformed China into a single-party socialist state of which industry and business was nationalized to increase economic
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