chinese inventions slides
TRANSCRIPT
Respond in your notebooks• List 3 things that pop in your head
when you think of China• How do you think China has benefited
the Modern World?
Do Now
This Week
Today’s Agenda:
1. Guided Notes
2. Invention Activity
3. Discussion
4. Debrief Paragraph
Monday Chinese Contribution to Philosophy
Tuesday (Today) Chinese Inventions Thru Dynasties
Wednesday Current Events (Taliah, Ayisha, Grisselle)
Thursday Mongols Invade
Friday China Gets Back Up
How has China benefited our Modern World?
• A journey through 5 dynasties…
Ch’in Dynasty (221-206 B.C.E.)
Ch’in Dynasty(221-206 B.C.E.)
• China’s first empire• Started the Great Wall
of China• Legalist rule– Bureaucratic– Centralized– Military Expansion– Burn Confusions' Books
Great Wall
Shi Huangdi’s Terra Cotta Army
Detail: Soldiers
Detail: Cavalry
Han Dynasty(206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.)
Han Dynasty(206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.)
• Colonized Manchuria,
Korea, and Vietnam
• “the O.G. Chinese”
• Confucius’ values
• Paper invented (105
B.C.E.)
• Silk Road Trade Begins
Silk Road: Trade Route Resource
Sui Dynasty(581-618 C.E.)
Sui Dynasty(581-618 C.E.)
• Grand Canal Constructed– (largest artificial river in
the world today)
• Canal Locks Invented• Paper Money Invented• Est. Professional Army• Overworked and over
taxed
T’ang Dynasty(618-906 C.E.)
T’ang Dynasty(618-906 C.E.)
• Enforced Safety on Silk road
• Urban centers• Invented:– Printing (moveable
type)– Porcelain– Gunpowder– Mechanical clocks
Foot-Binding in Tang China
Sung Dynasty(960-1279 C.E.)
Sung Dynasty(960-1279 C.E.)
• Rockets invented• Creation of urban
middle class• Emphasized education• Magnetic compass
invented
Rice Cultivation under Sung
Invention Activity• Each group will have 9 inventions.
• Put the inventions in order of: • “Least Benefit to the Modern World” to “Most Benefit to Modern World”
• We will compare/discuss with other groups after
EXAMPLE:
Debrief/ Reflection
1. What 4 inventions had
the most influence on
the modern world?
2. Explain how each of your
four has effected the
world.
3. Now what do you think
of China and its
civilization?