Chinese inventions slides

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?