1. Chapter 12
Section 1

2. Bell Quiz
1. What problems and benefits did the Huang River bring to the Chinese people? 2. What were the main features of Shang religious belief? 3. What style of writing did the Shang dynasty create? 4. Explain the government of the Zhou dynasty: 5. Why did the Zhou dynasty fall? 6. Where did China get its name? 7. What 2 Chinese philosophies shunned politics? 8. What is an autocracy? And which dynasty had one? 9. What is a Civil Service system? And which dynasty had one? 10. Explain the significance of the Silk Road in China, and under which dynasty was it used? 11. Which Chinese philosophy believed peace could be achieved through threats and harsh punishments?

3. Answers
1. What problems and benefits did the Huang River bring to the Chinese people?
Problems: Flooding; Benefits: Fertile soil
2. What were the main features of Shang religious belief?
Animism and animal worship; belief in Shandi; Interpretation of Oracle bones
3. What style of writing did the Shang dynasty create?
Calligraphy
4. Explain the government of the Zhou dynasty:
No centeral government but territories were granted to members of the royal family
5. Why did the Zhou dynasty fall?
Warring states
6. Where did China get its name?
The Qin Dynasty
7. What 2 Chinese philosophies shunned politics?
Confucianism; Daoism
8. What is an autocracy? And which dynasty had one?
Emperor has all power; Qin dynasty
9. What is a Civil Service system? And which dynasty had one?
System that runs day to day business of government; Han Dynasty
10. Explain the significance of the Silk Road in China, and under which dynasty was it used?
The silk road created a trade route from China to Europe; Han Dynasty
11. What Chinese philosophy believed that peace could be achieved through threats and harsh punishment?
- Legalism

4. Vocabulary Chapter 4 Shang Bureaucracy Animism Calligraphy Zhou
Great Wall of China
Qin
Han
Cheng
Autocracy
Leveling
Silk Road
Confucianism
Daoism
Legalism
Mahayana Buddhism
-(Pg. 92 not highlighted)
Geneology

5. Chapter 12 Vocabulary * Must be in your own words *At least 2 sentences
-Grand Canal
-Empress Wu
-Zen Buddhism
-Genghis Khan
-Kublai Khan
-Batu
-Golden Horde
-Kami
-Shinto
-Explain Japan’s feudal system; define and -explain where Shogun’s, Samurai, Daimyo (pg 280), the emperor and the peasants fit into the system:
-Bushido

6. Tang Dynasty Defeated invading Turks
Extended the China’s land further than ever before
High point of Chinese literature
Believed in Zen Buddhism
Stressed meditation
Declined under weak emperors

7. Sung Dynasty A lot of cultural and artistic progress
Had to pay tribute to Mongol invaders in order to avoid war
Had a civil service system
Many inventions
Peasant life changed in 2 ways
Wealthy class grew

8. Tang and Sung Pamphlet Tang Dynasty group topics
1. Expansion of Tang
2. Literature under the Tang (Li Bo; Du Fu)
3. Religion in the Tang (Zen Buddhism)
4. decline of Tang leadership
Sung Dynasty group topics
1. China under the Sung Dynasty
2. Trade and the arts (porcelain) and Great inventions
3. Sung Civil Service System
4. Peasant life
5. City life
Pamphlet requirements:
Each person will create a brochure/pamphlet about their given dynasty
Must write about each of the 4 topics listed above and explain how it affected the culture and society of China.
Must have pictures, be bright and colorful, have a title cover

9. Tang Dynasty Notes Expansion under the Tang Literature under the Tang
Li Bo
Du Fu
Religion under Tang
Decline of the Tang

10. Tang Dynasty Expansion under the Tang: Literature under the Tang
Tang rulers defeated the Turks in order to expand territory
Extended China’s Frontiers further West than ever before
Under Tang rule China was the most powerful and wealthy country in the world
Literature under the Tang
Li Bo- Daoist; his poems are light and happy
Du Fu- Counfucist; poems discussed suffering and tradgedy of human life
Religion under Tang
Zen Buddhism flourished
Tang Government persecuted Buddhists
Neo- Confucianism
Decline of the Tang
Weak rulers
Nomad invaders

11. Sung Dynasty Notes China under the Sung Dynasty Trade and arts
Civil service system
Great inventions
Peasant life
City life

12. Sung Dynasty China under the Sung Dynasty Trade and arts
Cultural and artistic progress
Paid tribute to Mongol invaders to avoid war
Trade and arts
Foreign trade expanded
Porcelain became biggest export
Landscape paintings
Civil service system
Had to pass an test to work in the government
Great inventions
Gunpowder
Printing
Peasant life
Improvement of farming methods
Harsh taxing
City life
Crowded apartments
Hospitals and orphanidges
Wealthy women began wrapping their feet

13. Chapter 12 Section 1 Review
Numbers 3a, 3b, and 4
Write 2 paragraphs on number 4- DO NOT write a poem or song (unless you want to)