Ancient China

Look somewhere else. this cite thinks a lunar eclipse is the moon exploding for cying out loud!

it broke up hard dried clay topsoil to make farming easier and also helped alot with seeding crops, if the chinese didnt invent it then they would be stuck out in the field for a long time using their hands to break it up

Women can not have sex when they are pregnant, woman can not eat meat when pregnant, Grandmothers can not see the baby until 300 days after the baby is born.

If any law is broken your head will be cut off then they would eat it.

The extended family of the ancient Chinese was a patriarchal one, headed by the eldest male.

Craftsmen are fat people that eat burgers and sloppy joes............

During the Shang dynasty (1523-1027 BCE) The were two classes. The ruling class and the working class. The ruling class was made up of the king, his high priests and the feudal shi. The working class consisted of common people such as farmers, soldiers and craftsmen.

During the Shang dynasty, the shi were given lands and limited ruling power by the king in return for their royalty and support. These lands remained with the families of the shi and were passed down from fathers to sons.

By the next dynasty, the Zhou dynasty (1027-221 BCE) more occupations were created. The working class is further divided into 4 smaller classes that were ranked- scholars, farmers, craftsmen and traders.

During the next dynasty, the Qin dynasty (221-206 BCE), the power of the shi was reduced. Qin Shihuang took all the lands and armies of the shi after he unified China. The lands were then divided into provinces and looked after by officials whom Qin Shihuang had appointed to position of shi. The new shi didn't own the land they looked after.

During the Han dynasty (202 BCE-220 CE), another development took place. Becoming a shi now depended on whether one passed the Imperial Civil Service Examinations. This means whoever who was capable could be a civil servant as long as he passed the examinations.

Chinese art is visual art that, whether ancient or modern, originated in or is practiced in China or by Chinese artists or performers. Early so-called "stone age art" dates back to 10,000 BC, mostly consisting of simple pottery and sculptures. This early period was followed by a series of art dynasties, most of which lasted several hundred years. The Chinese art in the Republic of China (Taiwan) and that ofoverseas Chinese can also be considered part of Chinese art where it is based in or draws on Chinese heritage and Chinese culture.

There are a lot of places in order for one to find out information about the Han Dynasty. However, it is strongly suggested that one should check out from the website Wikipedia to have general information.

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Shang Dynasty.And the city is now called Ruins of Yin,near Anyang,Henan province.

The history of paper money is interesting not only from the idea and technology of printing, but also from the perspective of trading with a commodity that in itself has no intrinsic value. Clearly the issues of paper currency must inspire confidence for trading something of worth for items of no specific worth, and with the potential to be abused by the issuer as a way to increase the supply and control of items of value, thus creating inflation.

For much of its history, China used gold, silver and silk for large sums, and bronze for everyday transactions. The notion of using paper as money is almost as old as paper itself. The first paper banknotes appeared in China about 806 AD. An early use of paper was for letters of credit transferred over large distances, a practice which the government quickly took over from private concerns. The Chinese, with their great gift for pragmatism, labelled this practice "flying money". The printed notes were normally military scrip or other emergency measures issued in dire circumstances, but for the most part these notes disappeared quickly. The first real use of a paper money system was in Szechwan province, an isolated area subject to frequent copper shortages (which is a component of bronze). It had reverted to an iron currency of coins, and paper was a welcome option. Iron banks sprang up to facilitate the trade, and the government was quick to take over the profitable enterprise. Amazingly, the Chinese only used paper money on any meaningful scale for about 300 years of a 400 year period between 1050 and 1450, overlapping the Song, Yuan (Mongol), and Ming dynasties.

The Song dynasty was the first to issue true paper money in 1023, and it did so at first cautiously, issuing small amounts, used in a limited area, and good for a specific time period. The notes would be redeemed after three year's service, to be replaced by new notes for a 3% service charge, an efficient way for the government to make money.

The most famous Chinese issuer of paper money was Kublai Khan, the Mongol who ruled the Chinese empire in the 13th century. Kublai Khan established currency credibility by decreeing that his paper money must be accepted by traders on pain of death. As further enforcment of his mandate, he confiscated all gold and silver, even if it was brought in by foreign traders. Marco Polo was impressed by the efficiency of the Chinese system, as he chronicles in his The Travels of Marco Polo (Il Milione).

"All these pieces of paper are issued with as much solemnity and authority as if they were of pure gold or silver; and on every piece a variety of officials, whose duty it is, have to write their names, and to put their seals. And when all is prepared duly, the chief officer deputed by the Khan smears the seal entrusted to him with vermilion, and impresses it on the paper, so that the form of the seal remains imprinted upon it in red; the money is then authentic. Anyone forging it would be punished with death. And the Khan causes every year to be made such a vast quantity of this money, which costs him nothing, that it must equal in amount all the treasure of the world."

As is to be expected, paper money did not succeed everywhere. In Persia, its forcible introduction in 1294 led to a total collapse of trade. By the 15th century even China had more or less given up paper money. Over this period, paper notes were issued irresponsibly, to the point that their value rapidly depreciated and inflation soared. Then beginning in 1455, the use of paper money in China disappeared for several hundred years. This was still many years before paper currency would reappear in Europe, and three centuries before it was considered common.

Western civilization had minted precious metal objects and coins for trade since about 500 BC. Devaluation and inflation often destroyed a monetary system. Banking systems were cyclic with nations and rulers, and the need to transfer large sums of money to finance the Crusades provided a stimulus to the re-emergence of banking in western Europe. In Europe, the first issuer of paper money was Sweden, where in 1661 Johan Palmstruch's Stockholm Banco introduced the first banknotes. Unfortunately, the bank subsequently overextended itself and had to call in government aid. Despite this example, other European countries soon followed the Swedish lead. In 1694 the Bank of England was established and was soon printing "running cash notes".

I believe the story is that the emperess of china was sitting under a tree drinking tea and a silkworm fell into her tea and it's body melting created silk and that is how silk was discovered and the Chinese discovered it

they looked the same as modern Chinese people do. except, the women had unnaturally small feet. (because they bound them in cloth so that their feet could not grow (it was the fad of their era)

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The role of children in Ancient China was to help the family. Only wealthy boys were educated. The boys helped their father at his trade. Usually they were farmers and worked out in the fields. The girls stayed inside and helped their mother in the kitchen and taking care of children smaller than them.

The water soure of aincent china was the Huang Hu river also known as the Yellow River because of the loess in it.

What I have been taught by my grandparents was that that each family had their own profession in old Hawai'i. It was the responsibility of the father to care for the physical well being of his family by means of work. To be sure the the proper spiritual rituals had been taken cared of, and to be sure the the children were educated properly. Such care did not just mean work out side of the home but also meant to cook and to clean. Women had the heavy responsibility to birth and care for the spiritual and emotional well-being of their children. Being sure that they understood the purpose of life and their role in it as well as their responsibility to their family, their people and their Akua. The wife always had the respnisibility to help and sustain her husband in any situations that were possible under spiritual and political standings. That is to my understanding the basic layout to the roles of men and women in ancient Hawai'i.

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unlike Japan, China did not have a specific warrior class

Ancient China used paper for scrolls and for books it has replaced papyrus that was used in Ancient Egypt and is still used in the United States.

it was created by the song dynasty in the 14th dynasty to kill enemies

Yes, they got silk from China.

yes i think so

The religion was Legalism.

Actually, Legalism is not a religion. It is a philosophy. There was no real religion in the Qin dynasty, although the emperor did follow the ways of Legalism to rule China.