The 3 major rivers in China

Early History

-Old Scholar -Founder of Daoism (Taoism) -Daodeijing (way of happiness)

-Great disciple of Confucius

Contribution: Great wall of China

Proclaim himself the first emperor

-Created a military super power who built the Great Wall of China -His tomb was guarded by an army of 8,000 terracotta soldiers and chariots at Xian, Shaanxi province -His tomb is now a famous tourist site

Expanded the empires territory

Established the Silk Road

Paper was invented

Calligraphy

Golden Time

China became the mightiest empire in the world

Printing by movable blocks invented by feng tao

More people learned to read and write

Greatest book under tang dynasty

Calendar Playing cards Peking gazette Poetry

First newspaper

2 part of Soong Dynasty

Soong Dynasty can be found between

First paper money

First gun machine

Mongolian

Legend: Kublai Khan

Made China great in the eyes of the world

Construction of its capital Beijing

Forbidden City

"Ming Chao" Brilliant

Henry Puying

The last rulling empire of China

Most unpopular rulers of China

More myth than fact excavations in 1960s and 1970s

Bronze works and thumbs clearly point to an evolutionary period of development between the desperate stone age villages and recognized ball cohesive civilization

Tang established __________ dynasty

One supreme god as the head of pantheon

Zhou Dynasty

Mandate of heaven was developed

Under the _______ dynasty chinese philosophers and poets emerge

772-476 BCE so called

2 parts of Zhou

By the time of the rule of emperor________china was the largest most populous and most prosperous country in the world

He assassinated his father killed his brother and others of the noble house it is under the tang dynasty

First and only female monarch

Arts technology and science flourish under

Some of the most impressive pieces of chinese sculpture and silverwork come from this period

Neo confucianism became the most popular philosophy of the country

Became emperor of both china and Mongolia

An admiral, forbidden city, and beautiful pottery

Commanded a fleet over 2,000 vessels and reach many countries including arabia persia java and africa

The last ruling empire of china

Four greatest contributions to mankind were

An italian jesuit became an imperial adviser due to his scientific knowledge

A belgian became head of the imperial bureau of astronomy which give advice for planting and harvesting

Dr. Sun Yat Sen laid down three guiding principles for china

A five year plan to industrialize an agricultural society which disastrously wound up as the great leap backward

Movement which encourage open dissent but ended in brutal repression when it got out of hand

A violent upheaval when million of youthd the red guards plunged the country into chaos, destroying temples and relics of China, burning and looting foreign embassies, assaulting officials and anybody suspected of being against Mao;the red army was called out to stop them

Xia

Shang

Qin

Han

Xin

Siu

Tang

Song

Yuan

Ming

Manchu/Qing