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C h i n a C o r e 1 By: Tammy ( PINK ), Justin( BLUE ),Shannon( PURPLE <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">), Virginia ( <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">RED <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">),Mondre (BLACK),Katie( <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">GREEN <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) , Haley ( <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ORANGE <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Ancient China is a very interesting and advanced country, it was located in Eastern Asia and borders the Eastern Chinese Sea. It was very advanced to the other civilizations of its time. On the great wall there was 300,000 workers on the great wall. The <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">chinch <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">bug is one of the worst grain bugs in china. China was the only country at the time that used silk worms to make their clothes. The thing that makes china so interesting is that china has natural barriers which are mountains, deserts, and rivers. As you can see, China has many natural barriers, all of which helps to keep china isolated from the rest of the world for many thousands of years. Well i hope you have enjoyed the introduction because the rest of the information will just be outstanding.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The government in ancient china was very organized.They had a lot of rules and beliefs.If someone didn’t believe in the beliefs of the king then that person would be put to death.The king could put any one to death at any time if they miss behaved, or he could kick them out of the country forever.That makes ancient china better because if there was bad people then they wouldn’t be there anymore because they would either be kicked out or put to death. On most crimes the person would be banned from china or put to death. The men were conciderd to be more powerful and useful. The men got treated better to.The father or the man of the house was in charge <span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">because the men were Chinese government employed huge labor to work under four groups farming, military, construction work, and textile labor. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ancient China had very advance Technology and Inventions. One of their most popular inventions would be; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">fireworks, decimal system, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">paper money <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Inventions that are important and maybe not known are; kites, fire arrows, water wheels, astronomy, pottery wheel, jump ropes, folding umbrella, dominoes, calligraphy, playing cards, wallpaper, lacquer paint, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">paper, crossbow, silk, wheel barrow, ink, gunpowder, medicines, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">compass <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">seismograph. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> An invention that was a surprise to me was <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ice cream <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. The technology was just as advanced as the inventions. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Chinese had a lot of technology. They were casting multi ton iron when Europe and the middle east started to cast as ounce. Europe didn’t start to cast this much until the 1700s. They drilled into the earth searching for salt wells by driving bamboo sticks in the ground. Some went as far as a kilometer. They were also us <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ed <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> natural gas to evaporate water to make salt. The Chinese found out about row crop farming instead of just throwing out seeds randomly. That made it easier for crops to be irrigated. They made rudders for boats and suspension bridges. The Chinese were very advance compared to other civilizations. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Chinese were farmers and traders. They fished farmed and irrigated the land. The Chinese had cowrie shells in the 1800s as money. Then later on, they used metal imitations of cowrie shells for money, and then metal strings of beads called cash. Coins were bronze by 400 BC. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By 593 AD the first printing presses were invented in China. Cast iron was made in China in the 4th century BC. It was not available in Europe until 1380 AD. No one knows for certain where the kite originated, but many people believedit was made in China a couple thousand years ago. 618-906 A,D, were known for their Public Systems, Art including Pottery, Sculptures, Paintings, And they were also known for their Gun Powder. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As you can tell, we owe China a lot for what we have now! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In China they had a very interesting very complex social class compared to others. They had many traditions that they followed. Like in China they had a tradition that the oldest man in a family ruled it. In China they never had a girl be in charge of anything, she was the one taking the orders and filling them out. Men were the ones making the women do all the work in a household, The reason they did this was because men were considered better, wiser andstrongerthan women <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> A girl was always ruled by a man. In young age they were ruled by their dad in middle age a women was ruled by their husband and in old age they were ruled by any man in the house. When a girl turned fifteen she would have her long hair braided as a sign of adulthood. Then she would marry a man of her fathers choice. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">People in China generally wore tunics. Sometimes people wore jackets over their tunics, when it was cold out. Also, men and women kept their hair long. People believed that you got your hair from your parents, so it was disrespectful to cut your hair. Then, during the Sui Dynasty, the emperor decided poor people had to wear only blue or black and only rich people could wear color. Around 1100, during the Sung Dynasty, a trend started that women should bind their feet. They would bind the feet of little girls from 5 to 6 years old. This would cause their toes to break and bend under their feet. Women did this because they thought they had to have tiny feet to be beautiful. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They mostly farmed Wheat and Rice. Traded with the West and some times India. China traded Cattle, Fish, and Iron. Ancient China shipped Silk and <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> imported <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gold. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> In conclusion the Chinese were very advanced in inventions, technology and many other things. They were doing many other things that other civilizations could not do. The Chinese gave us things that changed the world and we would never be where we are today without them. This is why we think the ancient Chinese were the best out of all the other civilizations. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Well i hope you enjoyed reading our paragraph. We would appreciate if you used ours. Thanks for your time reading our paragraph.

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