ANTH 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wok, Li Keqiang, Unequal Treaty
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I"m in 11:30 - 12:30, meet in leacock 212. *tonight, meet at 6pm to watch film: print out study sheet for film china in revolution. The great middle kingdom: has a map on mycourses, will be part of map quiz, map quiz due sometime next week, has 3 tries. China"s dynasties: neolithic egypt - shang, roman empire - han, dark ages - 3 kingdoms, renaissance - ming. Industrial revolution - late qing to republic to people"s republic. Sun yat-sen becomes president, and his nationalist party (kuo ming tang or guomindang) wins. Invention of writing system: oracle bones, bronze metallurgy, marks the development of shang in terms of chinese having high level of civilization according to archaeologists. September 13th, 2016: greatest archaeological find of 20th century, army of qin shihuangdi. Less than 10% of pop, but have huge amount of land (i. e. xinjiang, tibet)