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Forbidden City Questions for history project

1. How did the Forbidden City impacted the life in China?? 2. Who built the Forbidden City?? 3. What is the purpose for the Forbidden City?? 4. How does it impact the life today in China?? 5. When was the Forbidden City built?? 6. What dynasty was the Forbidden City built? 7. What was the Forbidden City made out of? 8. What did it do with the citizens of China?


 * || What was it? || How did it begin? || Who is the main person? || What was their story?? || What was the big ideas of the philosophy? How did it affect China's government?? || Which dynasty followed the philosophy? || Find a quote that shows the big idea of the philosophy and then explain its meaning. ||
 * Confucianism || Emphasizing love for humanity. High value to learning and devotion to family. || Confucius was the founder of the philosophy way of life. || Confucius || Confucius wanted to go to school, but he couldn't. So he became a noble man. He got famous because of his brains. || Respecting each other and treating the same way you want to be treated. || Song Dynasty || "To govern is to correct, by setting an example for being correct, who would dare to remain incorrect?" ||
 * Buddhism || A religion that is represented by many groups. || Prince Gautama became a monk and realized how to run life || Prince Siddhartha Gautama || Siddhartha became a prince and then he went on a journey. || Realized that life is run by the 4 Noble Truths || Sui and Tang Dynasties || "Many Chinese people turned to Buddhism for comfort during these troubled times" This quote meant that they know that this religion will probably comfort them. ||
 * Daoism || a Chinese sect claiming to follow the teaching of Lao-tzu but incorporating pantheism and sorcery in addition to Taoism || Lao Tzu went on a journey and wrote about it with a ox with him. || Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu || A guardian asked him to write a sacred book for his teachings. || They want to teach people to achieve the same two goals: immortality and happiness || Song and Yuan Dynasty || "Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river" ||

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=China Cyber Hunt= [|Discovery of Tea] 1. For how many years have the Chinese been drinking tea? Tea has been around for 4,000 years. 2. How was tea first used in China? Tea was first used an herbal medicine for the sick. 3. In what dynasty did drinking tea become popular? Tea became popular during the Zhao Dynasty [|Chinese Inventions] 4. What year was the new invention of paper presented to the emperor? The invention of paper was introduced to the emperor by 105 A.D 5. What did the Chinese use to make paper? The Chinese used bamboo fibers to make paper. 6. When did the Chinese invent moveable type? The Chinese built the moveable type in the year 1045 AD. 7. How many characters does the Chinese have in it? The Chinese language has 3,000 to 5,000 characters in an average newspaper. 8. When did the Chinese invent gun powder? They had discovered gunpowder in the 8th century AD. 9. What did the Chinese use to make gun powder? The Chinese used sulfur, charcoal, and saltpeter (potassium nitrate) to make gunpowder. 10. What weapons did the Chinese use gun powder for? The Chinese used the gunpowder for weapons like a rocket. 11. When were the first magnetic compasses used by Chinese ships? One of the few magnetic compasses were used in the eleventh century by Chinese ships. [|The Tang Dynasty] 12. What year did the golden age of the Tang Dynasty begin? 13. How could a poor person in the Tang Dynasty get a job working for the government? Anybody can take an exam to work for the government no matter if you are poor or not. 14. How many people lived in the capital of the Tang? Almost a million people lived in the capital city of the Tang dynasty. 15. How did Buddhism get to China? Buddhism got to China in the Han dynasty through the Silk Road. 16. What were the Three Doctrines of the Tang Dynasty? The Three Doctrines were the Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism. [|The Song Dynasty] 17. What is the period of the Song Dynasty sometimes referred to as? The Song dynasty was referred as China’s Age of Invention. 18. Who visited China during the Song Dynasty? Marco Polo visited China during the Song dynasty. [|When did the Song Dynasty rule China?] 20. What was the Song Dynasty the first government to do? It was the first government to issue banknotes or paper money, and the first one to establish a permanent standing navy. [|Confucianism] 21. What does Confucianism stress? Confucianism stressed the need to develop responsibility and moral character through rigid rules of behavior. 22. What is Confucianism? Confucianism was the social code of behavior. 23. What is a social code of behavior? Confucianism is the social code of behavior. 24. What did the social code of Confucianism honor? It honors the founder of it, Confucius. [|Buddhism] 25. What did Siddhartha want to understand? The prince wanted to understand what caused human suffering. 26. What does "the Buddha" mean? Buddha meant the Enlightened One. 27. Why do Buddhists look within themselves? So that they could find happiness, escape the cycle of death, and rebirth to reach Nirvana. 28. What is karma? The rewards of punishments a person faces because of their thoughts, words, and actions. 29. How many Buddhists are there in the world today? There are over three hundred million people who are Buddhists today in the world. [|The Four Noble Truths] 30. Describe the Four Noble Truths in your own words. Life is connected to suffering. Life isn’t perfect and the world where we live. [|The Great Wall of China] 31. When was the Great Wall of China built? The Great Wall was built during the Qin dynasty. But it wasn’t completed until the Ming dynasty. 32. What was the purpose of the Great Wall? It was built for protecting against the tribes that want to take down China 33. How long is the Great Wall? The Great Wall is about 4 miles end to end. 34. About how many men died working on the wall? Around 2 to 3 million me died as for building the Great Wall. 35. What happened to the peasants who died while working on the wall? (You'll have to scroll down a bit to find this one.) The peasants that worked on the Wall were buried inside the Wall. [|Genghis Khan] 36. What other names has Genghis Khan been called? Other names Ghengkis Khan was called were, World Conqueror, Emperor of all men, and the Scourge of God. 37. What empire did Genghis Khan establish? Ghengis Khan established the Mongol empire. [|Kublai Khan] 38. Why was Kublai Khan different than other Chinese rulers? Kublai Khan faced stereotypes of Mongolian rulers by investing in his newly acquired people and providing the foundations of a Grand empire. 39. Who was Kublai Khan related to? Kublai Khan was Ghengis Khan’s grandson. 40. What famous explorer did Kublai Khan know? Marco Polo knew Kublai Khan. [|Marco Polo] 41. When was Marco Polo born and when did he die? Marco Polo was born in 1254-1324. 42. How long did Marco Polo spend in Asia? Marco Polo spent 3 years in Asia. 43. In what city did Marco meet Kublai Khan at? They both met in Beijing, the future capital of China. Scroll down two Years Serviced in Khan's Court. 44. What skill did Marco have that made him valuable to Kublai Khan? Marco Polo was a gifted linguist and master of four languages. Scroll down to Coming Home. 45. For how many years did the Polo brothers serve Kublai Khan? It took the Polo brothers 17 years to serve Kublai Khan. 46. How long did the sea journey home take? It took about 2 years for Marco Polo to come home. 47. Where was Marco when he wrote the story of his travels in Asia? He was in Venice when he wrote the story of his travels in Asia. 48. What was the book called? The book was called “The Descriptions of the World” or “The Travels of Marco Polo.” 49. Why do you think people did not believe Marco? Because some people in his country didn’t believed that Marco Polo traveled to China. 50. What did Marco say on his deathbed? He said that “I only told you half all that I saw!”