Sunday, February 27, 2011

Additional Option- Major Events, Culture, or Geographical Features

                                                        Geographical Features

              The Zhou dynasty has two major parts, the western Zhou and the Eastern Zhou. The Wei river flows into the Yellow at the place where it completes its great loop and turns eastward towards the sea. The city was perfectly square and measured 3 miles on a side with in the wall, 9 mile length wide roads, and nine other roads crossing the up right angle. King Wu built his sculpture near the Chang dynasty. 

Religion/Culture

                                                          Religion/Culture
             
                 Chinese people like the fact that to execpt people for the good and the bad. And to do that, they had to combine it into one. Ying and Yang are the two great forces of nature. Two ideas were in the book of changed. Those idea's were the Ying and the Yang. Ying was the bad side of every story, war, fight, anything. and Yang was the the good side, the Zhou dynasty was understanding and they knew that there was two sides of everything. So they dicided that they were going to put it into one and make the Ying Yang sign. The outer circle represents everything, while the black and white shapes within the circle represent the interaction of two energies, called ying (black) and "yang" (white), which cause everything to happen.

Inventions

                                                                  Cross Bow

                                       The Cross bow was invented in the Zhou dynasty.  The invention of the crossbow the 4th century B.C.E. The invention of the cross bow enabled archers to shoot pointed metal bolts released by a trigger. They created it because of the war. When they needed weapons they thought of the idea of not just throwing arrows at them with there hands. They metal bolts to be released by the wooden handle that looks like the letter D. The people of the Zhou dynasty used this in war, and it took a while for the other dynasty's to find out about the new and improved weapon there is to help other dynasty's with the war. This is one of the Cross bows in the Zhou Dynasty.

Interview with a "Famous" person from the Zhou Dynasty

Question- Would the Zhou Dynasty be known as the most successful out of all the Chinese dynasties? 
Answer- No,Zhou is known as the most successful one but it does have some great achievements.


Question- Why did the Zhou Dynasty in China end?
Answer- The Zhou rule declined intellectually and morally. The Zhou kingdom had been divided into a bunch of small territories. In 403 BC civil war broke out, beginning the period of the Warring States. Also more powerful weapons, made from iron formed. Eventually one of the warring states the Qin took control, creating the new dynasty.

Question-  What were some of the Social classes in daily life?
Answer- Having Ox pulling a plow was something of luxury for a peasant.

Question- What entertainment was there in the Zhou Dynasty?
Answer-   The invention of the crossbow in the 4th century B.C.E enabled archers to shoot pointed metal bolts, realised by a trigger. 

Question-  What did the people of the Zhou Dynasty believe?
Answer-  The people in the Zhou Dynasty believed that there is always a good and bad side, that's why they combined it into one and created the Yin-Yang 

Map


Unfortunatly the Zhou Dynasty was to small to get its own little map. 

Front Page News Story

 
 King Zhaowang died in the floods of River Han , but King Muwang achieved great successess against the west. His personal participation in the western campaigns is reflected in the late Warring States  novel Mu tianzi zhuan . After these initial powerful demonstrations, the central power of the house of Zhou declined under the Kings Gongwang , Yiwang, Xiaowang , The reign of King Liwang  was even ended in 841 by a of several lords. During the following period of the Gonghe.After the king died, his son Kin Cheng succeeded. With the help of his uncle, he made the country became prosperous and stable.