Review-- Bellringer Take a graphic organizer from the table

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Review-- Bellringer

• Take a graphic organizer from the table
• On the back, give three summary statements that
  describe what we previously have learned about
  China

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China and Japan
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What to expect

• This unit is a combination of the Golden Age of
  China and Japan
• It will also cover the largest empire in the
  world- the Mongol
• Japan- its culture, government, acheivements

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Objective 1

• Compare the different groups of people who ruled
  China during its golden age

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Todays activity

• Make sure your foldable is done.
• Divide a piece of copy paper into 3 sections
• The headings should read Website in each
  category.
• We wil research 3 sites on middle age China. One
  site must be a video
• Student will provide summary paragraphs in each
  section.

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Bellringer

• Finish worksheet on Chinese achievement

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The Tang

• Brought large of changes
• The civil service exam came back
• Expanded the boundaries of China
• Improved farming methods including the growing of
  rice and tea
• Porcelain and silk trade
• Poetry under the poet Li Bo
• Declined b/c of Central Asia taking over the Silk
  Road

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The Song

• The cultural empire
• Creation of printing and caligraphy
• Rudders and sails
• Theater
• Taken over by the Mongols
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Bellringer

• Read The Way it Was on page 414.
• Answer the following
• How old were the Chinese when they took the
  tests?
• Why do you think taking these tests were so
  stressful?
• Recall What has been the hardest test you have
  ever taken and why?

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Bellringer 1/25/11

• Answer the following questions
• What role does religion play in the daily lives
  of people? How does a persons believe system
  help them survive in this world?
• Why does a society or country need an education
  system?
• 5 minutes

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T-Chart

• Create a T-Chart with the following titles
• Buddhism
• Neo-Confucianism
• Create 4 details that show how the Chinese used
  these ideas

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Wrap up

• Describe why there was a conflict between
  Buddhism and Confucianism?
• Can philosophies and religions clash with each
  other? Explain.

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Bellringer

• Finish the rest of the graphic organizer
• Pick up a plain white sheet of copy paper at the
  front AFTER YOU FINISH THE ORGANIZER
• 10 MINUTES MAX!!!!

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Foldable

• Fold paper hot dog style and leave about a ¼ inch
  at the bottom.
• Cut into 4 sections
• In each section write the following on the
  outside
• Early Mongol tribes learned several skills to
  help them as warriors.
• Because Gengis Khan united the Mongol Tribes

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Continued

• As a result of the Mongols conquering China
• The Mongols changed China by
• On the inside of foldable, find statement from
  the text that help support or show results of the
  statements on the outside.

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Bellringer

• Finish
• Foldable
• Worksheet with main idea/ Chinese achievements.

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The Mongols

• At first, they were nomads from the north.
• Gengis Ghan united all mongols under one rule.
• Conquered Russia first, then China
• Used horses in battle, good archers

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Mongols continued

• How did they rule?
• All they wanted was riches
• Could care less about culture, just pay your
  taxes
• Increased trade with other countries
• Kublai Khan ruled the Yuan Dynasty
• Crushed by the Ming after 150 years of rule.

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Bellringer

• Vocabulary sheet
• Finish the text meaning for each term

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Ming Dynasty

• Rebuilding dynasty
• Brought back the exam
• The census
• Repaired canals and bridges
• Created new forms of literature-novel
• Explored new areas through sea travel

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Bellringer

• Using page 413, provide the follwing answers
• What is a monastery? What religion uses them
• How were monasteries used in China?

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Identify the following people

• Zheng He
• Empress Wu
• Tell what the Forbidden City is

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JAPAN

• objective
• Discuss what items Japan modeled from China
• Explain how feudalism worked in japan
• Describe important features of Japanese culture

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Japan Early history and geography

• Japan is made up of small islands
• Its called the Land of the Rising Sun
• Its part of the Ring of Fire.
• Like Greece, people traveled and lived of the
  benefits of the sea.

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Bellringer

• Turn to pages 486 and 487
• Identify the three earliest clans of Japan
• Name one significant feature of each clan. Tell
  something unique that each one did.

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Earliest inhabitants

• Japan was ruled by three different groups
• Jomon
• Yayoi
• Yamoto
• The yayoi and yamoto were clans a group of
  families related by blood or marriage

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Prince Shotoku

• An yamoto prince who became emperor
• Created a government bureaucracy
• Introduced Buddhism to the Japanese
• Introduced Chinese ideas to the Japanese
• The Great Change-dividing Japan into provinces
  ran by officials who reported to the emperor

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Organizational Chart

• Organizational Charts show how a group, business,
  government is organized from top to bottom.
• We are going to create a chart that shows Japans
  government from top to bottom and their
  responsibilities.
• You will need a sheet of copy paper.

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continued

• At the top, title your paper Japan during the
  Great Change.
• Now, draw a box below that shows the leader of
  Japans govt and label it as Emperor
• Tell what the responsibilities of the emperor
  was.

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Bellringer

• Get with your partner
• Finish your organizational chart
• Use color if you want I would like to show off
  your work.
• 20 min.

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Bellringer

• Finish main idea chart that we have been working
  on in Chapter 14 section2

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Why didnt the Mongols invade Japan?

• Page 495
• What Mongol leader attempted to invade Japan?
• Why did he fail?

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The Rise of the Shoguns

• Weak emperors began to emerge in Japan- regents
  had to run the show.
• Most regents would not give up power
• Regents came from the Fujiwara clan
• The Fujiwara gave land to nobles- nobles made
  peasants pay taxes to them.
• To protect the land, nobles hired private
  warriors or sammurai

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CONTINUED.

• Gempei war was between two families over land.
• The winner was a family called the Minamto
• Fearful that the Minamoto may take over, the
  emperor gave Minamoto Yoritomo the title of
  SHOGUN.
• A SHOGUN was the commander of all military forces
  in Japan

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Shogunates continued

• The rule of shoguns throughout Japan was called a
  shogunate.
• Each shogunate was named for the family that
  ruled. Ex Minomoto shogunate, Kamakura
  shogunate
• Shoguns become weak over time and samurai began
  to lose trust in their rule
• As a result, Japan divides itself into small
  territories and daimyos or military lords rule
  these small areas

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bellringer

• Define the word feudalism
• Finish your Graphic organizer on Medieval Japan
• Be ready to discuss organizational chart that we
  worked on yesterday.

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Rule of the Daimyo

• Daimyos ruled under a system we call feudalism.
• Feudalism is a system of rule in which lesser
  groups vow loyalty to a local lord.

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Heres how Japanese feudalism worked.

• A Daimyo pledged loyalty to a shogun and emporer.
• Daimyos created their own local armies to protect
  the land.
• Peasants of the region vowed loyalty to the
  daimyo because he would protect them.

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Shoguns and Samurai

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Bellringer What is it?

• Where is it from?
• How is it used?
• Is it an actual person or is it a thing?

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Japanese culture

• Religion
• Developed into many sects or small religious
  groups
• Shinto- which is native to the Japanese
• Zen Buddhism
• Taught martial arts
• Pure land Buddhism

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Literature

• Wrote poems and plays
• Tanka poems- unrhymed poems of five lines
• Haikus
• Kabuki theater
• Lady Murasaki- great playwright

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Art

• This is a Japanese theater mask.
• Borrowed ideas from China and Korea
• Art usually had a lacquer finish including masks
• Origami- art of folding paper into shapes

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Economy and Society

• Grew rice, barley, millet and wheat
• Increased trade with Korea and China
• Women had very little power
• Practiced the task of footbinding