Good Morning!
• China lecturette
• Horse Race Review
• Unit Two Test
• Lie, cheat, backstab, kill, or a great big hug…
• Daoism
• School of Confucianism
• Buddhism and Hinduism
• Lab time for the Research Paper
Early China
• Yellow River/Huang He
• Yellow River/Huang He loess
• Floods
• Partial isolation but nomadic attack
• Shang Dynasty culture
• Ancestor spirits and gods
• Tribute
• Writing and bronze
Zhou Rule
• Mandate of Heaven and Dynastic Circle
• Challenge of Governing
• Two Capitals
• Feudalism
• Cities, trade roads and coins, iron metalworking, farm improvements
• Period of warring states
• 402-221 B.C.E.
Horse Race Horse Race
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Issues…
Issues…
Context: breadth, correct time period
Claims – ATDQ!
– Claims are concepts regions have in common, not just regions!
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Con MEL Con MEL
Context:
– who did what, when and where,
– turning point question and summary of answers in your story
Main idea
– Your summary of one answer in your story and how it is connected
Evidence and Logic
– Your explanation of how evidence shows the main idea to be correct
Welcome!
Classical Civilizations
•Government?
•Problems?
•Beliefs about what is important in life?
•Government?
•Problems?
•Beliefs about what is important in life?
Zhou Feudalism
You will be placed in a feud of 3-5 people.
You will attempt to increase power.
You could earn extra credit.
Points
• You need to participate in decision- making and negotiation.
• This simulation is worth 10 points.
• If you are in the winning feud, you
can get 5 extra credit points.
Points and situations
• You will start with 30 points.
• Good crop years increase your
points, bad years decrease them.
• You may be attacked by other
feuds, by pastoral nomads, or,
under certain situations, by the
Zhou
Decisions
• Do you pay the Zhou taxes (5)?
• Do you “build walls” (5 per unit)?
• Do you attack neighboring feuds?
• Do you buy off, resist, or try to join
the Xiongnu (Huns)?
Why…
• Is a blade of grass more sturdy than an oak tree…
• Do you practice in sports…
• Do many monks of different religions live very
simple, repetitive lives…
Daoism
• There is an energy which runs throughout existence (the Dao, or Way)
• We get into trouble when we resist this or try to change it
• We need to “go with the flow”, quiet down
and listen and follow our instincts…
Concepts of Daoism
• P’u, simplicity, the “uncarved block”
• Wu wei, “action through nonaction”
• Tz’u, compassion
Confucian School, p.15
• Teacher is “Venerable Elder” and should only be addressed by Elders.
• In each group, oldest person is Elder and should be addressed as Elder
• Responsibilities
– Elders have pupils read, answer questions – Will be quizzed by Venerable Elder after 10
minutes
– Pupils obey, Elders treat with compassion
The Boy Had It All
Three Palaces
One for Winter
One for Spring
And One for Summer!
Hundreds of
Beautiful Servant
Girls
The Best Education
All of them could dance, sing, and play music!
He studied writing, cleanliness, arithmetic,
military skills, and sports
Life Was Very Good for Siddhartha
He lived a life of pure pleasure.
But. . .
He Was Not Happy
• His father, the king, kept Siddhartha sheltered from the real world.
• Siddhartha would often contemplate his censored existence.
• He grew more and more curious about what
laid beyond the palace walls.
Four Life-Changing Encounters
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st►The Old Man
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nd► The Sick Man
• 3
rd► The Dead Man
• Siddhartha saw these things and became deeply
saddened
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th►The Ascetic
“Only when you have given up the desires and pleasures of the world like riches and comfort, can you be free
from the suffering in the world. I find my peace by
helping other people find theirs.”
Siddhartha Gotama
• Asceticism
• Gotama sat for 49 days in meditation under the bo tree, until he received
enlightenment
• Buddha: “the Enlightened One”
Four Noble Truths
• All life involves suffering
• Desire is the cause of suffering
• Elimination of desire brings an end to suffering
• The Noble Eightfold Path (“Middle Way”) will eliminate desire
Reform of the Vedic: Hinduism
• Common people left out of Vedic, needed purpose
• Buddhism and Jainism challenge to jati
• Upanishads lead to concept of moksha
• Intense personal devotion, symbolism, different paths to moksha
– Vedic gods Vishnu the preserver, Shiva the destroyer, Devi
– Gods and goddesses simply manifestations of Brahman
– Centered on temples and shrines, pilgrimage
Why did the Maya civilization decline and fall?
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Context: “What’s Goin’ On?”
Context: “What’s Goin’ On?” Context: “What’s Goin’ On?”
Context: “What’s Goin’ On?”
Tertiary sources: based on eyewitness Tertiary sources:
accounts and other historians’ decisions about what is important….
Where and when?Where and when?
– What was happening around the subject?
Who did what?Who did what?
– What seem to be turning points?
Based on context (why then? Why there?)
Defines the focus (sets boundaries)
Avoids oversimplification of assumptions
Good Historical Questions
What impacts did the Tokugawa
Shogunate’s policy of isolation have on Japan during the 1600s and 1700s?
How was Napoleon Bonaparte able to gain power in France in 1799?
What impacts did westward expansion
have on the southern United States during the first half of the 1800s?
Not-So-Good Questions
How has music changed over time?
How did Hitler's stupidity doom the German war effort?
How has God affected the universe?
What events led to the rise of Alexander the Great?
Obtaining Sources
Tertiary, providing the context of the topic,
helps to see issues (tip: Why then? Why in this time and place? Another tip: bibliographies of these can really help in finding other sources)
Secondary, legitimate creative questions and interpretive answers with logic and evidence (tip: look in intros and conclusions for
assumptions made and debates/controversies with other historians…Another tip: watch in the intro and/or conclusion for information about
new questions that might be asked)
Primary, direct evidence from contemporaries of the topic (tip: what interesting or
unaccountable issues are there in the document)
Library: card catalogs, keywords and truncated
Public Web: Google Scholar
Gated Web: databases
