Ancient ChinaAn essay on ancient China can be educational but also very fun andinteresting.
China differs from other culteres by its wide range of topicssuch as government, religion, and its ethics. . . . . .
I hope you find this essayvery informative and the info. not to be wrong. Geography has always played a important role in Chinas history. Beca-useof Chinas enormous size it has always been hard to conquer and even harder tounite.
China is split into three parts by three river vallies, the Haung, theChang, and the Xia. Because of heavy rainfall. Major flooding took place all the time and inreaction to this the floods would wash away good soil used for farming It wouldalso wash away cities, and villages with records and stuff like that. Most of the rest of China is covered with mountains or is very dry andhilly, and on the northwest border of China there is a huge, cold desert calledthe Gobi.
Because of this, the north-west part of China was extre-mely lesspopulated. Alot of the features of China have kept itself isolated so they have reallyevulutioned all by itself without much outeside activity. Chinas history did not really have (or mention) leaders, it really justmentioned dynesties. Chinas had three dynasties.
The first of which was the Xia(2,000 b. c. to 1,500 b. c. ) except for ancient legions one really doesn’t knowmuch about the Xia rulers.
In 1,500 b. c. the Xia rulers were overthrown and theShang dynasty came into focus and into place. During the Shang dynasty, Chinese artists were busy making beautiful artfigures, religious stuff, and were making weapons out of bronze. Even though the Shang dynasty lasted for several hundred years most of therulers were extremely viscious and had fun playing games of torture The nobleslived very rich lives and were treated very good in contrast to the peasentswho were extravigatingly poor and were spit upon as if they were the scum ofthe earth even though the rich folk couldn’t get along in life without thepeasents because the peasents provided their food.
They rulers of the Shangdynasty were so cruel that they would not only sacrifice animals for religioussarimonies they would also have humans sacrificed. Because of the way peoplewere treated the chinese drove the Shangs out. After that the Wu Wang dynasty came into play at around 1100-256 b. c. Itlasted longer than any other dynesty in the history of china.
The Wu Wangdynast grew to have land from the eastcoast and from the Chang river in thesouth. China is a humoungis country stretching for over 1,800 miles from themountains and ice in Tubet. In the west trough lots of trees and deaserts tothe coastline in the east. Chinese root first started at the mouth of theYellow river in the midle of the country where the soil is a rich, yellowishearth named Loess. Peasents almost allways provided the food for the entire Chineze empire.
Usually there wasn’t enough food for the entire so great famines were nottotally unusual (some times the peasents even rebelled against their richowners. Rich people had a pretty cool diet it ranged from ox to bears and birdsoup to dog meet. Some times at great feasts their would even be over 300 mealsto choose from. While rich people had a “exciting” diet peasents had often noteven enough food to survive.
Their “diet” usualy consisted of only vegetablesand rice. People up in the north usually ate alot of cereal but in the souththey usually ate rice, nuddles, bread, and bean churd. Most of the time theChinese ate food out of small bowles and used chop sticks as eating utenciles. Rich and poor people of China wore totally differint clothes. The poorfolk of China wore baggy hemp trousers and a loose shirt underneith and forshoes they wove together straw.
While rich men and women wore robes of silktied together tied at the waist with a large slash at the top of the robe. Thefront of the womens robe opened a little to reveal a different coloredundershirt made of silk slippers with wooden shoes on their feet. So as I have shown U a report on China can be ver fun and interesting. Social Issues
