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chapter 1:Geography of china
chapter 2:Effect of geography on settlement and life in ancient china
chapter 3:The Shang dynasty
chapter 4:Contributions of the Shang dynasty
chapter 5:Creation and influence of Confucianism
chapter 6:Creation and influence of Daoism
chapter 7:Creation and influence of Legalism
chapter 8:Qin Shihuangdi's unification of china
chapter 9:Qin Shihuangdi china northern border
chapter 10:Qin Shihuangdi's conflict Confucian scholars
chapter 11:Achievements of the Han empire
chapter 12:Trading on the silk road[obstacles,items traded; cultural exchanges
chapter 13:Impact of the silk road on china
chapter 14:Genghis Khan
chapter 15:Modern day china

Table of contents

northeastern
plain

north china
plain

This is a map of physical features of China.

Do you know about china and its wonders.
Here I will tell you about its great geography!
The Tibetan Plateau is dry, mildly cold in the
summer and very cold in the winter.It is a grassland
and mountain like area. It is surrounded by two
mountain ranges.The Himalayas and the Kunlun
mountains which are very cold, dry, and high. Now
the two deserts are different . The Taklamakan and
Gobi deserts are dry-cold in the winter and dry-hot in
the summer.It is near the North china plain ,Tibetan
Plateau ,and the Kunlun mountains .

Geography of china

The vegetation for the the Taklamakan and Gobi desert is a barren/scrub like
kind of vegetation.No trees for shade.The Northeastern Plain
is wet-cold in the year and hot -wet during the summer.
It is near the Gobi desert and the North plain . The north
china plain wet and cold in the winter and wet and hot in the
summer . It is near the Gobi desert and Northeastern plain
.The Chang Jiang basins is wet and cold in the winter and
wet and warm in the summer.The chang jiang basins are
coastal plains ,that is great for rice farms because of the
warmth and the moisture in the soil/air.

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This is a geography map of China.

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The Chang basins is great for rice farming.

The north China plain is great for farming and
herding for the people.
The Chang Jiang basins are great for rice farming and
okay for heading, but there are limited grazing fields
for the cattle.

The Effects of Geography
on the settlement and life
in Ancient China

The Taklamakan Desert isn't good for
farming at all. its also bad for herding
because there aren't any fields, there
are only oases.
The Tibetan Plateau is not good for
farming because of the cold and dry air.
But it's good for raising yaks and other
animals.

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The Taklamakan desert is only good farming near oases.

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The Shang sacrificed people when burying other people.

They performed human sacrifices for the
creation of royal constructions and for
the burial of the dead.
The king split the kingdom with his
younger brothers, and they made them
into clans, and these clans fought
together.

The Shang Dynasty

The Shang Dynasty is split into five
social classes: nobles, craftsmen, traders,
farmers, and slaves.
The Shang religion was based off of an
ancestral worship, where they would
give foods and drinks.

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The shang worshiped their ancestors.

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The shang learned how to make bronze.

The Shang Dynasty figured out how to
make bronze with just copper and tin.
The Shang Dynasty made logo-graphs
which are just characters. But
combining characters makes one.

The contributions of
the Shang Dynasty

Craftsmen made amazing art out
of jade and bronze.
The Shangs made ax heads,
spear heads, arrow heads, and
helmets with bronze.

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the shang learned how to make bronze weapons

Confucius found
his path at of
Confucianism
at 15.

The origin and founder of confucianism
lived from 551 BCE to 479 BCE,
which is 72 years.
They thought that the authorities
should be good examples, and that those
under the authorities should obey them.

Creations and influences of Confucianism

It influenced many students to spread
the teachings of Confucius.
It had a huge cultural impact on China,
it created the manner of showing respect
for elders and good behavior.

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Confucius was a
peaceful kind of
person instead of
ruthless.

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Laozi lived was one with nature.

The founder was named Laozi,
and he lived to be over ninety years old.
He lived in the 500s BCE.
The teachings of Daoism was based off
of the ideas of good and bad, happy and
sad, yin and yang. They said it was
impossible to have one and not the other.

The creation and influence of Daoism

Daoism influenced the kings of
China to be less harsh to their
subjects.
Daoism also influenced the writing,
art and thought even more.

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Yin and yang were
created by daoism.

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Hanfeizi was a ruthless
man

Creations and Influences of Legalism

The founder of Legalism was Hanfeizi,
and he lived from 280 BCE to 233 BCE.
Legalists thought that bad actions
would lead to terrible punishments, and
that rewards would only be given to good
actions

Legalism took an influence on the
government very quickly compared
to other philosophies.
It specifically influenced Qin and his
ideals for his dynasty.

Hanfeizi was 47 when he died.

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Qin was mean and ruthless.

Qin Shihuangdi's Unification of China

He made a set of new laws based off of
Legalism. There were harsh punishments
behind these new laws.
He standardized money to make it
easier to trade.

He created weights in the size of bells to
make it easier to weigh things.
He standardized weights.
Emperor Qin made the writing easier.
He cut down many characters from the
old writing system.

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Qin made weights to help with trading.

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Qin built the wall over 10 years .

Qin Shihuangdi and China's
Northern boundaries

The Great Wall of China took ten years to
build and three hundred thousand men
worked on this wall.
The wall was most likely made by layers
of earth pounded into wooden frames.

many people were actually accidental
buried and forever built inside of the
Great Wall of China.
Because of this wall, many invasions
were stopped, they had to get around it by
using cavalry, which usually failed.

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Qin had over 300,000 men work on the great wall

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Confucian scholars would rather die than give up their books.

Confucian scholars angered the emperor's
adviser when they criticized the emperor's
ways of ruling the kingdom.
The Confucianists would not give up
their books when the emperor had them
banned.