China

Activity 1: Map Practice: China Provinces

Activity 2: China Map Application: Go to this map and use it to answer these questions: 1. What is wrong with this map? 2. What is the map trying to show you? 3. What country does Henan have a comparable population to? What is the population of that country? (search) 4. What country does Xinjiang have a comparable population to? What is the population of that country? (search) 5. What country does Shanghai have a comparable population to? What is the population of that country? (search) 6. What country does Fujian have a comparable population to ? What is the population of that country? (search) 7. Would you say that more people live in the east or the west of China? Go to this table and use it to answer these questions: 8. What province has the greatest population, and how many people does it have? 9. What percent of the population lives in the cities? (urbanization) What is the GDP? 10. What connection can you make between the location of the province (east or west), size of population, the percent of urbanization, and the GDP for this province?

Activity 3: China Fact Finding: Directions: Copy and paste the table below to your China page. Read the information at the link below (in the China Facts Tab) and provide the assigned amount of details under each category. National Geographic China


 * Geography (5 facts) || History (5 facts) || Industry (3 facts) || Politics (2 facts) ||

Stone Age 1. What probably caused people in China to start farming? 2. Where did people start settling down in cities? Why do you think this is so? 3. Where did people in China learn how to make carts probably?

Shang Dynasty 4. What was the Bronze Age? 5. What two other civilizations did the Chinese writing resemble? Describe the Chinese writing of that time. 6. What was used to keep records of payments between people? 7. What type of ruler existed during this dynasty? 8. Describe the social class system during this dynasty. 9. Where did the people learn about chariots from? 10. How long did the Shang Dynasty last?

Chou Dynasty 11. How many kingdoms existed under the emperor? 12. Why were the leaders of the western dynasty forced into the east? 13. Why were the first 300 years of the eastern dynasty good? 14. How did iron cause conflict amongst the 200 kingdoms? 15. How many kingdoms survived after the emperor's end? What king was the only victor left in the end?

Ch'in Dynasty 16. How did Ch'in Shih Huang Ti unite the people of China? 17. How did Ch'in Shih Huang Ti make sure none of the lower kings revolted against him? 18. What did Ch'in Shih Huang Ti order built to protect from Mongolian and Siberian invaders?

Han Dynasty 19. Who did Wu Ti remove from China? 20. What trade route did Wu Ti develop? 21. What civilizations did the silk road connect? 22. Describe university set up by Wu Ti. 23. How long was Pan Ch'ao gone exploring for? What did he learn about? 24. Summarize the last paragraph.

Sui Dynasty 25. What did Wen Ti do to make the government better? 26. How did Wen Ti choose his officials? 27. What was Wen Ti's greatest project? 28. What was Wen Ti's worst project?



Activity 5: Chinese Culture


 * || China's Culture || China's History ||
 * Education and Learning || Education and examinations are very important. || The Han Dynasty put great importance on passing exams for government office. ||
 * Food || "Don't waste food or parts of the animal or plant." || Food was scarce, so much that people needed to start farming even during the Stone Age. ||
 * Language || Most people speak Chinese, although some other languages still survive. || During the Ch'in Dynasty the emperor made all people use the same language. ||
 * ** Kung Fu ** || Kung Fu is considered a form of self defense and exercise. ||  ||
 * Festivals || During festivals families visit the shrines of ancestors for respect and help. || People believed that their family members who had died controled their daily lives and futures. ||
 * Literature || The Chinese have an extensive record of history and folktales. || During the Shang Dynasty, people started to keep records by writing information on bones. ||
 * Art || There are many statues and sculptures of animals and spiritual beings. || During the Shang Dynasty, the discovery of Bronze caused people to create scuptures of deities and their ancestors. ||
 * **Leisure** || Mah Jong and Shanghai Solitaire are a couple of games played. ||  ||
 * Ethnicities || Even though there are 56 different ethnic groups, the majority of the population is of the Han ethnic group. || ​ The Silk Road enabled people to interact and communicate, which united them more, resulting in people identifying with the Han culture. Also, trade makes money, money creates food, and food supports a bigger population. ||

China Reading an Pre-Assessment