1. Huang He River Valley

2. Bellringer: 1. Pick up the papers by the door. 2. Update your ToC:
Page 20: Notes: Huang He River Valley
Page 21: Reading Questions: Huang He River Valley
3. Write down your HW:
Your UNIT 1 TEST is NEXT CLASS! Continue to study for your test.
4. Take out your notes from your reading (p ) and have them out on your desk.

3. Agenda: Bellringer NOTES: Huang He (Yellow) River Valley in China
Book Questions (p )
Traffic Lighting: Unit 1 Study Guide Review
Bellringer, Reading Check, NOTES/LECTURE: Hueng He River Valley (China), Book Activity, Unit 1 Test Review

4. Civilization Emerges in China
When does civilization begin in Huang He valley?
Fossil remains date to 1.7 million years ago
Peking man
Chinese settlements develop BEFORE cities in Mesopotamia (but do not develop into actual civilization until later)

5. About the Shang Dynasty
Rules from ~1700 BCE to BCE
First family in China to leave written records behind
Important city: Anyang
Surrounded city w/ walls for protection

6. GRAPES Notes: Huang He River Valley

7. GEOGRAPHY: Rivers: Huang He, Yangtze
Huang He = “Yellow”
Leaves behind yellow silt (loess) after floods
Floods = terrible
Trade = difficult (geographic isolation)
Not great natural protection
Farming problem = only 10% of the land is arable (farmable)

8. RELIGION:
Spirits of family ancestors = can bring good/bad things to family
Oracle bones
Polytheistic
Supreme god: Shang Di
Other lesser gods

9. ACHIEVEMENTS: Writing system (still pictographic)
Characters that stand for a syllable
No links between written and spoken language
Difficulty communicating in different regions of China
Irrigation using levees
Use of bronze/iron in tools, weapons
Silk production (eventually trade)
Eventually constructed roads/canals under Zhou dynasty
Feudalism

11. POLITICS/GOVERNMENT:
Ruled by an emperor, who was in charge of a dynasty
Dynasties = like hereditary monarchies
Mandate of Heaven
Belief that if a ruler was just, the gods would bless him and allow him to keep ruling but will allow him to be overthrown if he is unjust
If an emperor was unjust or bad, the gods would withdraw their blessing, leading to the ruler’s overthrow = a new ruler and dynasty comes to power

12. Major dynasties in China:
Shang Dynasty ( BCE)
Zhou Dynasty (~ BCE)
When they took over control from Shang dynasty, they used the Mandate of Heaven to justify their overthrow

14. ECONOMICS: Agriculture-based economy
Not a lot of farmable land = need to trade, too
Built roads to try to stimulate trade (didn’t work that well b/c of geo. Isolation)
Eventually coin money towards end of Zhou dynasty

15. SOCIAL/SOCIETY: Two key things: 1. Loyalty (to family and elders)
Respect one’s parents = impt.
Patriarchal society
2. Family
Family is most important group in society

16. After your notes:
1. Review your study guide in groups of no more than 4. If you are not sure about a term, now is the time to ask your group members.
2. After min. of review, I will go over ONLY 7 terms.

17. After your test: 1. Turn in your test answer sheet to the drawer.
2. Pick up the two papers on the podium at the front of the room.
3. Work on the vocab first, then the SOL reading. The vocab will be checked as a HW grade next class.