Take Out ASIA map pencil textbook page 253

Take Out: ASIA map pencil textbook page 253

1. Talk with your table ONLY 2. Keep discussing for 10 MINUTES!!! 3. Listen to each other 1. EVERYONE PARTICIPATES 4. At the end of 10 minutes then,

Geography Shapes Life in Ancient China Chapter 8, Lesson 1

Chapter 8, Lesson 1 Vocabulary oracle bone a bone or shell used in Shang Dynasty religious rituals pictograph a picture or drawing that represents a word or idea dynastic cycle the pattern of the rise and fall of dynasties Mandate of Heaven ancient Chinese belief that a ruler had the gods’ approval

Himalayas China India

Yellow Taklimakan Desert Gobi Desert The Himalayas Yangtze River Farming

Desert t r e s e D China Isolated Mount ains India

Chapter 8, Lesson 1 China’s geography affected its development, how? provided fertile soil for good farming, isolated China from other civilizations Where did the Chinese Civilization begin? Between the Yellow and Yangtze rivers on the North China Plain

Chinese Writing

Chapter 8, Lesson 1 How did the Chinese language develop? Developed from scratches on oracle bones to pictographs How did the Shang develop writing? They used pictographs to stand for words and ideas How were the Zhou able to conquer Shang lands? They claimed the Mandate of Heaven

Shang Dynasty

Shang Dynasty • • Oracle bones Pictograph writing Bronze work First dynasty of China

Zhou Dynasty

Zhou Dynasty • Weak kings • No strong central government • Local leaders/governors got powerful • Fought each other for power • Time of warring states