CHINA

CONFUCIUS

• Was a ponderer

CONFUCIUS

• Believed a good government depended on⬇️
• Having leaders which ruled and benefited the people

TANG DYNASTY

• Created Neo-Confucianism
• It (Neo-Confucianism) wanted to:
• (On next slide!!!) ➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️

TANG DYNASTY CONT.

• Wanted to⬇️
• Reduce it Buddhism popularity

MORE TANG DYNASTY!

• Neo-Confucianism got its ideas from⬇️
• Buddhist and Daoist beliefs

CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS

• civil service exams used for⬇️
• Hiring officials

CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS

• Officials were hired to jobs by⬇️
• What they could and couldn't do.

CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS

• The rich had the best chance of
• Passing these exams! Because➡️

CHINESE TRADE

• Chinese traded:
• Silk, olives, oil, turtle shells
• And diseases, ideas, and cotton

CHINESE TRADE/SILK ROAD

• Silk Road was important because⬇️
• It was the road cities used to trade goods

CHINESE HEATING THEIR HOUSES

• They used coal to heat their homes

STEEL & IRON

• The difference:
• Steel was used to make weapons for warfare
• Iron was melted in a furnace

PRINTING PRESS

• Was basically a gigantic printer
• It made books and scrolls

PRINTING PRESS

• Used wood and cutting characters⬇️
• Into the wood. The ink was then placed..
• On the wooden block& ➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️

PRINTING PRESS

• could be used again and again
• To make more copies

PRINTING PRESS

• The printing press...
• Eventually led to paper currency

FIRE LANCE

• Was an ancestor of the modern gun
• Used gunpowder, and⬇️⬇️
• Helped the Chinese army greatly

LI BO

• One of the most popular poets in Tang era
• Wrote poems about nature

DU FU

• A very good poet
• Was a poor servant with a tough life
• Wrote very serious poems about:
• Social injustice.
• Also wrote about problems of the poor

CALLIGRAPHY

• Was painted during Song era
• Is when you use a brush and ink to make⬇️
• Beautiful characters

CHINESE PORCELAIN

• Was used to make cups,⬇️
• Plates, figurines, and vases

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