China Essential Questions
1. Analyze how geography help shape early Chinese civilization?
2. What were the major contributions of early Chinese civilization?
3. What geographic challenges did China’s early rulers face when trying to unite?
4. Evaluate how Confucian philosophy impacts Chinese culture?
5. How did the Mongol invasion promote trade and cultural exchanges?
6. Why did the Chinese view foreigners as barbarians?
7. How did the Chinese react to foreign influence in China?
8. How did Western powers gain greater trading rights in China?
9. What were the causes and effects of the Revolution on 1911?
10.Why did many Chinese people support the Communists?
11. How did Chinese propaganda about Mao Zedong help to unite China?
12.Evaluate how Mao and the communists change the political, economic, and
social systems in China (1949 – 1996)?
13.What were the main successes and failures of the Chinese Communist Revolution?
14.Why did the Cold War become a war of “Economics” rather than a war of
“Ideology”?
15.What was the global impact of the Cold War?
16. Evaluate the effort of the Chinese government to limit population growth.
17. What were the causes and effects of the Tiananmen Square Massacre?
18. How did the international community react to the Tiananmen Square Massacre?
19.Articulate how China’s role in the world changed since 1949?
20.What obstacles to economic development does China still face?
Vocabulary
Loess
Clan
Dynastic Cycle
Feudalism
Confucius
Philosophy
Filial piety
Tiananmen Square
Calligraphy
Acupuncture
Warlord
Civil servant
Pagoda
Gentry
Dowry
Tributary state
Land reform
Steppe
Taiping Rebellion
Open Door Policy
Opium War
Nationalists/Kuomintang
Boxer Rebellion
Trade deficit
Trade surplus
Economic Imperialism
Ethnocentrism
Sphere of Influence
Great Leap Forward
Four Modernizations
Cultural Revolution
Communes
Red Guard
Domino Theory
Cold War
Developing Country
Socialism
Communism
One-Child Policy
Peasant
Golden Age
Middle Kingdom
Mandate of Heaven
Great Wall
Silk Road
Collective Farms
Kowtow
China Project Choices
Topics
1) One-Child Policy
2) Arms Race (China/Russia vs.
U.S.)
3) Tiananmen Square Massacre
4) Pollution
5) Influential Leaders/Changers
6) Tibet
7) Olympic Impact
8) Eastern Medicine
9) Great Wall
To Consider:
1) Historical Connection
2) People involved and affected
3) Results/Consequences
4) Global Reaction/Intervention
5) Reasons/Rationale
6) Solutions—Yours and Others
Reminders:
1) Written and Visual
2) Analysis and Evaluation
3) Creativity and Technology
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