Cultural Hearth
•  Remember this definition: The center from which
ideas and traditions are spread.
•  CHINA is a Cultural Hearth, one of the 6 in the
beginning of history.
Megan Long
Chinese History: Dynasties
1.  Dynasties: A ruling House
2.  Recorded history starts
with Shang Dynasty in
1700 B.C.
3.  Zhou Dynasty 400 B.C.
Confucius:Ancient Philosopher
who gave rules to live by: like
religion
4.  Qin Dynasty 221 B.C.
Built the Great Wall
5. 1911 Manchu Dynasty
overthrown by Nationalists
Isolationism: Ideas of keeping to
themselves, not outside
influence
1.  1600’s the western
nations wanted to
trade with the East.
2.  Due to military
strength, force
China into giving a
“Sphere of
Influence.”
China goes Nationalists
•  1921 Nationalist
government set up
•  Dr. Sun Yat-Sen was
a Nationalist
Revolutionary.
•  However: opposition
in the form of
Communism
•  Communists led by
Mao Zedong
China: Communist: Mao Zedong
•  Mao was a peasant
himself.
•  He gained support of
peasants.
•  Communism =
government owns
everything
•  Rids the gap between
poor and rich
China: Conflict vs. WWII
•  Nationalist vs.
Communist power
struggle for control of
country.
•  WWII, stop civil
battles to fight united
against advancing
Japan
China after WWII
•  Nationalists recognized
by United States as
official government of
China.
•  Communist supported by
Soviet Union
•  Nationalist couldn’t gain
control.
•  Communist overthrew
Nationalist under Mao
Zedong in 1949
People’s Republic of China
•  1949 China becomes People’s Republic of China
= A Communist government
•  !949 the Nationalists flee the mainland and go
to Taiwan and set up the Republic of China.