Reading packet objectives for week of 10/9-10/13:

The objectives from the textbook are at the start of each of the lessons.

Objectives from Lesson 1: China’s Early History

1)     Describe China’s geography and explain how it isolated China and divided its people.

2)     Summarize the characteristics of China’s Neolithic cultures.

3)     Describe life under the Shang Dynasty.

4)     Compare and contrast Shang and Zhou religions.

5)     Evaluate the importance of feudalism and writing to the Zhou.

Objectives from Lesson 2: The Age of Confucius

1)     Explain why the last years of the Zhou dynasty were a time of chaos and how China’s greatest thinkers and teachers sought to keep China in order.

2)     Define Confucianism and identify its primary tenets.

3)     Distinguish between the Moists, Legalists, and Daoists, and explain their relationship to Confucianism.

Objectives from Lesson 3: A Unified China

1)     Explain how Qin Shihuangdi unified China as its first emperor.

2)     Summarize and evaluate the major changes Qin instituted as emperor.

3)     Describe bureaucracy and explain how it worked under Qin.

4)     Define censorship and give examples.

Objectives from Lesson 4: The Han Dynasty

1)     Explain how Legalism and Confucianism were combined to lead China in the Han Dynasty.

2)     Compare and contrast the lives of China’s rich and poor living on farms and in the cities. 

3)     Summarize China’s remarkable achievements in science, art, and culture during the Han Dynasty.

Objectives from Lesson 1: Mandate of Heaven

1) Explain the traditional relationship between China’s rulers and its people.

2) Explain some factors that contributed to Mao Zedong’s rise to power.

3) Describe the changes that occurred in China after Mao came to power.