Pre-Axial Chinese Religion Did not develop religion as a separate realm of human concern Rites‚ rituals‚ ethics that bound the Chinese people were cultural phenomena (daily routine) Chinese approach toward ultimate reality stressed NATURE No clear creator outside nature Chinese thought always emphasized people (family and community) Peasant Heritage Numerous festivals timed by agricultural calendar Politically: single empire; emperor until 1911 Language diversity (Mandarin in north and Cantonese
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Iron- improvement over bronze/ weapons and plow tip • Much warfare among nobility a) Crossbow first developed b) Cavalry added to chariots and foot soldiers DYNATIES (dynastic cycle: rise‚ rule‚ and fall) Qin Han • Ruled from 221-207 BCE • Ruler took title Qin Shi Huangdi‚ or first emperor‚ he was a brutal ruler • Was careful to choose who ruled the different regions so they wouldn’t betray him (they would owe their power to him) • Powerful armies crushed regional resistance • Built
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History of the Great Wall of China: Myths‚ Tales and Mysterious Materials in the making of it. Renee Bamba Reneely Amante Juan Carlo Madrideo Grade 8 Ohm Miss Morena Balmes January 8 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Thesis Statement Page 3 II. INTRODUCTION Page 4 III. CHAPTER ONE: HISTORY OF THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA A. Building it throughout the years Page 5 IV. CHAPTER TWO:BEFORE IT WAS BUILT Page 7 V. CHAPTER THREE: FACT FILES A. How long is The
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Even though the Zhou dynasty rulers made up the mandate of heaven‚ it ended up helping and improving the Chinese civilization. The mandate of heaven allowed the dynastic cycle to be changing constantly. While most of the Chinese leaders such as Shi Huangdi and King Zhou ignored the threat of the mandate of heaven and continued to mistreat their people‚ the mandate of heaven eventually took place and they were overthrown. Daoism best explains the mandate of heaven‚ as it is a natural occurrence of
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just there for show it has a really important job for the Chinese. Shi Huangdi created the Great Wall and with some prisoners of war. He built the wall to protect them from the Mongolians and other invaders. Meng T’ien employed 300‚000 men to construct different sections of the Great Wall of China. Qin Shih Huang also known to be the first emperor to built the earliest Great Wall after the unification of China under the central Qin government. A wall was built that was 8‚851.8 km the longest wonders
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History vocab. Pd.6 by Brian Briggs Loess- an unstratified usually buff to yellowish brown loamy deposit found in North America‚ Europe‚ and Asia and believed to be chiefly deposited by the wind Dike- Bank‚ usually of earth‚ constructed to control or confine water. Dikes were purely defensive at first but later became a means to acquire polders (tracts of land reclaimed from a body of water through the construction of offshore dikes roughly parallel to the shoreline). After a dike is built‚
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Great Wall of China was built by Qin Shi Haung the empire who wanted the wall to be built. It was originally built by 300‚000 soldiers‚ common people‚ and criminals. They were ordered to build the Great Wall of China. How they built the great wall if china is with bricks‚ cat stone‚ blocks‚ and slabs. The soldiers rammed soil into the lays of the walls. They also used stone‚ soil‚ brick‚ kiln‚ and sand to build the Great Wall of China. The Great Wall of China by Qin Shi Haung‚ the first emperor of china
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protected site. But it wasnt so pleasant for the people that built and worked on it hundreds of years ago. It was also a major part of the ending of the Ming dynasty. The real first building of the Great Wall was ordered by Emperor Qin Shi Huang (also called Qin Shi Huangdi by westerners or the First Emperor) to protect China from the northern nomadic tribes that wanted to take over China. The Mongols wanted to take them over because China was richer. After attacks from them‚ the Chinese decided that
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India. We can analyze these two civilizations using their governments‚ religions‚ and cultures. Both China and India have dynastic-like periods of government during their classical eras. China possessed four main dynasties‚ the Shang‚ the Zhou‚ the Qin‚ and the Han‚ while India was run by empires such as the Mauryans‚ the Guptas‚ and the Kushans‚ which is most likely because both of their lines of kings was often changing due to decline in tax revenue‚ social divisions‚ internal rebellion‚ and invasions
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The main dome-shaped building functioned primarily as a: a. tomb b. gopuram c. treasury d. reliquary 107. This building is in: a. Angkor Wat b. Madurai c. Sanchi d. Karli Questions about Image Set 3: (questions continue on next page) Tomb of Qin Shi Huangdi 108. In general‚ the ancient architecture from this culture can be characterized as: a. oriented so as to emphasize the equality of all members of society. b. widely influenced by outside cultures. c. subject to dramatic changes in short periods
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