Although archaeologist are still studying the Xia and Shang dynasties, recent decades have turned up evidence that the Xia dynasty may have been the origin of a political organization in China about 2200 B.C.E. From recent excavations archeologist can assume that the city of Erlitou was most likely the capital of the Xia dynasty. The sage-king Yu was the founder of the Xia dynasty. His power spanned through the Yellow River valley due to the fact that he controlled the leaders of the individual villages. The Xia dynasty yielded to the Shang way that started in the south and east of where the Xia dynasty was.
DID SHI HUANGDI DO WHAT WAS NECESSARY TO MAKE CHINA STRONG? INTRODUCTORY POWERPOINT References Oxford Big Ideas (Text book): pages 282 – 283 Pearson History S.B. : pages 260-263 PowerPoint slides on Shi Huangdi 1. Using the references above and any other reference, fill in the table below, presenting the positive and negative aspects of his rule POSITIVE ASPECTS OF HIS RULE | NEGATIVE ASPECTS OF HIS RULE | * He introduced a number of reforms to increase his imperial authority and govern the empire more easily. * He chose to appoint independent governors to help avoid the collapse the empire * Shi Huangdi abolished the practice of the primogeniture in which the eldest son had to inherit all of their land.
CHAPTER 16 Contract The Political Development of Imperial China Must Do: DUE BY: Monday 3-18-13 Work is to be done on binder paper and attached to this cover page except SECTION A which goes in your composition notebook on the left side of the book A. Complete and attach the PreReading Ch. 16 p. 179 to a left page of your Comp notebook (24 points)_____ B. Vocabulary - Students are to write the definitions from the text______________ _(15 points)_____ C. Book Sentence - and a sentence for each word found in the book containing the correct context (15 points)______ 1. aristocracy (p. 179) | 2. meritocracy (p. 179) | 3. Dynasty (p.180) | 4. unification (p. 180) | 5.
This encouraged the populace to enlist into military service for Qin. This is supported by King Hsiao calling generals, artisans and men of talent from other states to Qin, where they would be represented by their achievements and not their lineage, . Irrigation schemes and the building of walls and bridges were implemented. Irrigation schemes and bridges increased the efficiency of the people, allowing them to
Prisons in the 1600's and 1700's were very unsanitary and inhumane. There were options to pay a fee to avoid time in prison, but those living in poverty could not afford the fees. In the late 1700's, John Howard encouraged prison reform. He was held as a prisoner and watched several other prisoners die from the horrible conditions while he was held captive. He later became a sheriff and that is when he encouraged prison reform.
Mongols: Nomads and fierce warriors from Central Asia north of China. Lesson Notes: Tang dynasty brought a golden age of politics and culture, and China grew in area and population. Their ruler (Tang) achievements: 1. He used Confucius’s ideas to change the government and hired officials trained on that idea. 2.
Secretary of State John Hay first articulated the concept of the “Open Door” in China in a series of notes in 1899-1900. These Open Door Notes aimed to secure international agreement to the U.S. policy of promoting equal opportunity for international trade and commerce in China, and respect for China’s administrative and territorial integrity. British and American policies toward China had long operated under similar principles, but once Hay put them into writing, the “Open Door” became the official U.S. policy towards the Far East in the first half of the 20th century. The idea behind the Open Door Notes originated with British and American China experts, Alfred E. Hippisley and William W. Rockhill. Both men believed that their countries’ economic interests in China would be best protected and promoted by a formal agreement among the European powers on the principle of maintaining an Open Door for trade and commercial activity.
In 1979 demand grew for making the limit one child per family. However, that stricter requirement was then applied unevenly across the country among the provinces, and by 1980 the central government sought to standardize the one-child policy nationwide. On September 25, 1980, a public letter—published by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party —called upon all to adhere to the one-child policy, and that date has often been cited as the policy’s official start date. The program was intended to be applied nationally, although certain exceptions were made. In the early 1980s China relaxed the policy to allow couples to have a second child if each parent are both only children—meaning both parents have no siblings.
However, whether or not China’s industry experienced a process of profound and radical change between 1949 and 1962 is a debatable topic, which can be argued either way. Firstly, it can be argued that the growth of manufactured goods transformed Chinese industry during the 1950s. The main aim of The First Five-Year Plan, which occurred between 1952-1956, was to industrialize china and concentrated on developing the growth of heavy industries such as coal, steel and iron. These materials were vital to build roads and other means of transportation. To a certain extent, the industry of China had been transformed within this period, particularly due to the advancement of these heavy industries.
The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China in part to protect the Chinese Empire or its prototypical states against intrusions by various nomadic groups or military incursions by various warlike peoples or forces. Several walls were being built as early as the 7th century BC; these, later joined together and made bigger, stronger, and unified are now collectively referred to as the Great Wall. Especially famous is the wall built between 220–206 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang. Little of that wall remains. Since then, the Great Wall has on and off been rebuilt, maintained, and enhanced; the majority of the existing wall was reconstructed during the Ming Dynasty.