China (500 Bce - 500 Ce)
P=Retained Central Government from the Qin Dynasty.
*Bureaucracy *Confucian Philosophy *expanded China into Korea and central Asia * invasions from central Asia
* Fall of Han dynasty *
E= * Rice, Grains, Iron, and salt
*They would store rice to increase prices when there was bad weather that would not allow for the production of rice
or other grains.
*Silk, leather, Furniture, Jewelry, and other goods were exchanged along The Silk Road
*Silk Road allowed trade and communication between China and other parts of the world such as Europe.
*Rice and wheat we’re grown according to the seasons (they alternated between them)
*Paper money.
R= * Confucian Philosophy when times were prosperous.
• Buddhism when times were hard.
• Women had little to no rights in both but were casted lower in the Confucian cast system.
• Ancestral worship.
S= *Social Caste system with Merchants at the bottom and Priests at the top.
*Highly skilled Bureaucrats and landowning bureaucrats had a high status.
*Men were Merits.
* Land was valuable.
* Caste systems within families.
* Education for upper classes.
* Women had little no rights, however inside family casts women were ranked according to how long they had been
in the family.
I= * The invention of paper money.
• First to unite under one written language and weight system.
• First to have water powered mills.
• Medical and anatomy innovations.
• Mathematics flourished.
• Wagons.
A= * Textiles and pottery.
• A lot of art was influenced by nature (trees were generally always larger then men because they believed
nature was above humans).
• Music
• Writing became a form of art.
•
N=East Asia.
• Expanded china into Korea and central Asia.
• Warm wet growing season. (Suitable for rice growing)
• Oceans, rivers, and mountains were all part of the geographical landscape allowing for diverse ways to get
food and income. (fishing, hunting, trade)
*Bureaucracy *Confucian Philosophy *expanded China into Korea and central Asia * invasions from central Asia
* Fall of Han dynasty *
E= * Rice, Grains, Iron, and salt
*They would store rice to increase prices when there was bad weather that would not allow for the production of rice
or other grains.
*Silk, leather, Furniture, Jewelry, and other goods were exchanged along The Silk Road
*Silk Road allowed trade and communication between China and other parts of the world such as Europe.
*Rice and wheat we’re grown according to the seasons (they alternated between them)
*Paper money.
R= * Confucian Philosophy when times were prosperous.
• Buddhism when times were hard.
• Women had little to no rights in both but were casted lower in the Confucian cast system.
• Ancestral worship.
S= *Social Caste system with Merchants at the bottom and Priests at the top.
*Highly skilled Bureaucrats and landowning bureaucrats had a high status.
*Men were Merits.
* Land was valuable.
* Caste systems within families.
* Education for upper classes.
* Women had little no rights, however inside family casts women were ranked according to how long they had been
in the family.
I= * The invention of paper money.
• First to unite under one written language and weight system.
• First to have water powered mills.
• Medical and anatomy innovations.
• Mathematics flourished.
• Wagons.
A= * Textiles and pottery.
• A lot of art was influenced by nature (trees were generally always larger then men because they believed
nature was above humans).
• Music
• Writing became a form of art.
•
N=East Asia.
• Expanded china into Korea and central Asia.
• Warm wet growing season. (Suitable for rice growing)
• Oceans, rivers, and mountains were all part of the geographical landscape allowing for diverse ways to get
food and income. (fishing, hunting, trade)