Achievments of China!

Silk, Fireworks, Iron, Paper, matches, wheelbarrows, gunpowder, the decimal system, tangrams, the compass, medicines, kites, jump rope, playing cards, the seismograph and printing!

Inventions

The Chinese worked on the Great Wall for over 1700 years…

But the wall was not a solid wall at first. It was  a line of disconnected barricades.

The wall (or walls) was built to keep out invaders.

Workers died of exhaustion and disease.

It is known as the longest cemetery in the world.

The Great Wall

Built by Qin Shi Huang DiFound in 1974 by 2 farmers digging a

wellWarriors, Horses, weapons and a tomb

were found!Archaeologists believe they were made

of red clay dug from the earth. The artisans coiled the clay, shaped and added detail to it, let part of it dry and then added more on top.

Terracotta Warriors

Not actually a road! It’s a series of trade routes that connected Asia with Greece, Rome and other locations

It allowed the trade of silk, jade, iron, silver, ivory and IDEAS!

It was excellent for nomadic people! They became more important to the

cities- good at transporting goods in caravans, most became herders and traders, and they became resistant to diseases

The Silk Road

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfe-eNq-Qyg

Crash Course- Silk Road