World Geo Wrap Up: China
Big Ideas
Push factors
Connections
Pull Factors
Geography: The geography of the eastern side of china allowed easy passage by ships, allowing people to access the trade and culture.
Culture: The far different culture of ancient china from the rest of the world was a minor pull factor.
Trade: Silk and tea were huge pull factors in ancient china
Culture: They far different culture of china and other asian countries pushed europeans away.
Geography: The large deserts and tall mountains pushed people away because of the great difficulty of even reaching the country.
Trade: The excitement of trade with europe pushed people away from china and into europe.
Culture: A connection I can make about culture from ancient china is taoism. Taoism is a religion that originated in china and spread to japan and other asia countries
Something that we can learn from ancient china is that when you try to create something and you fail, you may have just created something just as useful. An example of this from ancient china is gunpowder. Gunpowder was made to be medicine but turned out to be something just as powerful.
Geography: A connection I can make of the geography of ancient china is the large desert. The large desert in the east of china is very similar to the sahara desert in Africa
Trade: A connection I can make about trade from ancient china is tea. Tea quickly became popular around the world after marco polo brought leaves back to europe.
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