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Geography
China is a vast country.It is the worlds fourth largest country it is home to 1.25 billion people. It has different climates .The south is wet and tropical. North west china is all desert. In the very far north east the weather can drop -50 degrees in winter.west china near Himalayas with some of the highest mountains in the world.China lowest point is in the Turfan depression at 154 meters below sea level.Melting snow from the mountains in the west create headwaters for two of china important rivers. The yellow river and the yangzi river. Yellow river gets it name because of yellow windborne clay dust.Loess that is blown across the north of china from steppes of central Asia.The loess is blown into the river and gives it a yellow appearance.

Zhou Dynasty
in 1100s leaders that were named and became known as Zhou and ruled the kingdom in china they attacked the Shang dynasties the Zhou dynasty lasted longer then every other dynasty zhouh's king claimed to mandate heaven. Heaven gave power to the king or leader no one rules with out the heavens permission zhou rulers expanded there territory to the north west and the east .the zhou granted land to others to get loyalty. zhou was the highest level zhou controlled distant areas and helped ensure loyalty to the king.in 771 bc invaders reached the capital each time the army were on the gate to protect the capital.after the defeat the lords deafet the lords

Shi Huang Di/Qin Dynasty
in 221 B.C named him self as shi huangdi as the first emperor shi huangdi the emperor made the great wall all north to stop invading the babrbians from north the qin dynasty did not last long after shi huangdi dynasty died it remain over 2,000 after his death they called the dynasty qin but its pronounced chin dynasty zhou got the qin dynasty and zhouh's son went to the east war as the leader expedition shang yang introduduce the number of military after he died in 338 B.C he made the acompllishments in the mid-forth.

Han Dynasty
The Han dynasty ruled china after the qin dynasty was overthrown in 207 bc. The hans expanded the chinese empire westward during their four centuries in power.It was broken down into two eras: The western Han Period and the eastern Han period. When the western Han dynasty collapsed the same family behind it regrouped and established a new dynasty. The new capital as the eastern Han dynasty. It is rembered as one of the greatest chinese dynasties.

Confucianism
Confucianism started in 200 B.C it was the one of the most important aspects in 100 B.C to A.D 1900 confusinism was born in a poor country with the nobles during the eastern zhou dynasty the moral system is empathy and understanding that is the meaning also Confucius brings a good country Confucianism taught the value of believe for example a wealthy loyalty family.

Legalism
is the belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled legalism rejected daoism because it didn't stress respect for authority legalism believed that they need new laws and punishments legalism wanted the empire to continue to expand confucanism daoism and legalism all became popular legalist were the first to put there ideas through out china.

Buddhism
the Buddhism was in the 6th century Siddhartha discovered the middle way Siddhartha was sitting under the tree and was the named the Buddha and every one tried to follow Siddhartha state of perfect peace.

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