Warm-up # 33 Why might a lower cast Hindu find Buddhism to be an attractive religion?

Road to the People’s Republic of China
Workbook pg. 12

“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, of doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely an gentle. .. A revolution is an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.” Mao Zedong (1927)

Imperial Rule 2500 BC – 1911: Dynasties controlled China (Imperial Rule) Most advanced and longest ongoing civilization Inventions way before Europe Relatively little positive contact with the outsiders Closed door to foreigners Missed out on Industrial Revolution

Opening the Doors Growing Industrial Nations want access to China’s goods and consumers Isolated China’s people peasants are starving and their weapons are inferior. BR tries to establish trade peacefully, but the Chinese are not interested No kowtow

Opium Wars BR. sell opium to India and China for profit and many become addicted ($$$$ for BR.) China’s economy drained to feed habit China makes opium illegal, but BR. won’t stop the sale

1839: China sink BR. opium trading ship but loose to BR
1839: China sink BR. opium trading ship but loose to BR. naval forces in the end. BR. Gain extraterritoriality European countries divide China into spheres of influence China gets nothing ; forced to adopt open door policy

Chinese History Dynastic Period = 150 BC – 1911 AD

Chinese Revolution Guided Reading
Workbook pg. 10 Class Docs: pg. 51

Essential Question How did Mao rise to, and then maintain power in China?

Chaos in China Directions Vocab Read Section 1: Mao Zedong
Complete Questions 1-7 15 min Mao Zedong Leader of the CCP Chiang Kai Shek Leader of the KMT

Red Stars Rising: Directions Read Section 2: pg. 52-53
Complete Questions 8-10 7 min

Warm UP # 34

The Red Emperor: Mao’s China
Directions Vocab Read Section 3: Complete Questions 15 min Mao Zedong The Great Leap Forward The Cultural Revolution The Red Guards Mao’s Little Red Book”