History of China

China doesn't exactly have a motto. Instead there are a galaxy of mottos of various organizations. The motto of the Chinese Cooperatives is "Work Together-Work in Harmony". The two word phrase is familiar to Americans. It is "Gung Ho".

his 4,000-mile-long network of routes stretched westward from China across Asia's deserts and mountains ranges,through the Middle East,until it reached the Mediterranean Sea.

Well, the Silk Road ran from modern cay China to modern day Somalia, so you would most likely see a great multitude of items traveling. Of those, the most common would be items such as: Salt, slaves, iron, copper, gold, pottery, and countless other luxury items.

School years generally have to be 180 days long (not counting weekends or holidays...students must just attend 180 schooldays in one year, but school years actually last longer than 180 days since there are weekends and we have a few breaks during the year as well). Most schools will start sometime between mid August and early September, and end between late May and mid June. So the school year usually ends up lasting just a little over 9 months. And then we get about 2 1/2 months off for summer break in between school years.

Various things actually, most likely common spices and valuable jade stones that were traded commonly among there.

The item most traded on the silk road was gold and silk.

Around 139 BC

While China was often under the control of colonial powers, it was never considered a colony. It is simply too large and complex to govern in that way.

The leader of the communist takeover of China was Chairman Mao. His full name was at one time generally spelled Mao Tse Tung, as an English transliteration of the original Chinese, but in recent years the alternative spelling Mao Tse Dong has been more favored. I personally just call him Chairman Mao to avoid the issue of how his last name is really spelled.

Mooncake festival is also called Mid-autumn festival. Celebration of Mid-autumn festival has a long history. In ancient times, the emperors had the tradition of worshiping the Sun in spring, and the Moon in autumn. The word "Mid-Autumn" first appeared in the famous ancient book "Zhou Li" (The Zhou Rituals, a book telling the rituals in the Zhou Dynasty). However, it was not until the early Tang Dynasty that the day was officially celebrated as a traditional festival. It became a established festival during the Song Dynasty, and has become as popular as the Spring Festival since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Celebrations has continued ever since and more customs for marking this occasion have been formed.

As it was in other medieval dynasties, to protect, to become educated, to head the patrilineal family, and to provide or work.

The imperial government of china was made up of different dynasty. The government was headed by an emperor, or sometimes an empress. Many Chinese rulers believed in the Mandate of Heaven. This idea meant that Heaven had chose the particular dynasty to rule. When something bad happened they thought that it was a sign that Heaven was displeased. The imperial dynasties lasted from 221 BC (B.C.E, Before common era) to 1644 AD. (C.E, Common era)

The ancient Chinese obtained water from low irrigation ditches and canals up to their crops by using the chain pump. The chain pump made it easier to bring water from low land to higher land. Chinese workers used pedals to turn a wheel that pulled a series of wooden planks that brought their water uphill. This was created during the Han Dynasty, China's golden age.

Yangtze River(ChangJiang River) and Yellow River

free university educations but were required to accept jobs in state owned industries

In terms of actual material imports, nothing particular came to China. As for other imports, many inventions and religious ideas game to China through the Silk Road.

Arguably, the most important one of all was Buddhism. Traders and monks brought Buddhism to China through the Silk Road and China still remains one of the nations with the highest Buddhist population.

Some Western inventions came to China through the Silk Road as well. Methods of processing sugar were among the most important. Basically, Buddhism was the most significant "import" brought to China through the Silk Road. It revolutionized the way people thought and even effected the government to some degree.

The Song was the 1st Dynasty to develop paper money.

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The Grand Canal of China also known as theGrand Canal (simplified Chinese: 京杭大运河; traditional Chinese: 京杭大運河; pinyin: Jīng Háng Dà Yùnhé) is the longest ancient canal or artificial river in the world. Starting at Beijing it passes through Tianjin and the provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the city of Hangzhou. The oldest parts of the canal date back to the 5th century BC, although the various sections were finally combined into one during the Sui Dynasty (581--618 AD).

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Commercial silk is typically harvested from the silk moth. Yup, that's about it. In ancient China silk was harvested from the tiny cocoons of the silk moth by dropping them into a pot of boiling water.

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Mao Zedong believed that traditional ideas contradicted communist ideals.