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Geography   east of China; Yellow Sea, East China Sea, and the Pacific Ocean Taklimakan Desert, to the Southwest is the Himmalayan Mountains, to the north; Gobi Desert & the Mongolian Plateau, central China is the Chang Jiang aka Yangtze flows east of the Yellow Sea. yellow sea deposits huge amounts of yellowish silt called loess which is blown by the desert winds to the northwest

Enviornmental Challenges yellow river couild be disastorous , sometimes floods could devour whole cities because of China's location settlers had to use goods from surrounding enviornment rather than trading the natural

2000 B.C.
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 **Challenges** Had many invasions and constant warfare. supplied own goods due to isolation from no interaction with other peoples. no trade Huang He's floods--> = "China's Sorrow "

**Culture** Respect was a very important virtue for the Chinese. high classes of Anyang lived in Timber framed homes. peasants & crafts people lived in huts outside of cities. woman were inferiors. elders were highly respected. Aranged marriages for 13-16 year old girls. Family was important. woman had to respect fathers-->sons-->husbands.

 **Dynastic Cycle** Shang dynasty 1700 B.C.-1027 B.C. Shang 1st to leave behind written records. Zhou over threw Shang and had their own dynasty but kept culture of Shangs. 1st Chinese dynasty was the __Xia__ Feudalism-political system-->nobles & lords allowed the use of land belonging to king.

<span style="color: #a34cfa; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zhou leaders had command from gods to rule. Leader could lose the mandate=command of ruling. Chinese gov.-->closely combined with mandate of heaven. Floods & problems could mean ruler is gonna be outta there soon.
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<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #2c6ff2; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">**Dynastic Circle** <span style="color: #a34cfa; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Cycle consisted of a rise-->decline-->replacement.

<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #2c6ff2; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">**Social Class/Feudalism** <span style="color: #a34cfa; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Kings have total land control. (but give & get divisions to help control land). King->__gave__ land __get-->__babysitters, protection & respect. Nobles->__give__ military service & loyality to king __get-->__ w/e they get from peasants. Peasants-->__give__ money$ farm, __get__ to live on land & farming.

<span style="color: #a34cfa; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">needed to know-->10,000 characters to be a scholar. needed to know-->5,000 to barely literate (read). good--> helped unify diverse land. bad> too many characters to remember. peasants & their kids did not know how to write/read. everyone in China could write the same exact language so it was easy to write with other villages. each character stands for a 1 syllable or 1 sound unit (ch,th,sh).
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<span style="color: #a34cfa; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Southwest Asia. Bordering India. By the Yellow & East China Sea, Pacific Ocean. Himalaya mountain range.
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