Ancient China PowerPoint and Guided Notes {Xia,Shang,Zhou,Qin,Han}

This 85 slide PowerPoint presentation covers the history of Ancient China from the Xia Dynasty through the Shang, Zhou, Qin, and Han Dynasties.

Topics include:

- Geography of China (including Himalayas, Gobi & Taklimakan Deserts, Tibetan Plateau, Huang He/Yellow River, Chang Jiang/Yangtze River, Xi Jiang River, and how its physical geography helped isolate early China)

- Xia Dynasty

- Shang Dynasty (oracle bones,achievements, expansion & decline, legacies, Mandate of Heaven)

- Zhou Dynasty (achievements, bronze casting, Hundred Schools of Thought, government & decline)

- Warring States Periods

- Qin Dynasty (Qin Shi Huang Ti, accomplishments, Great wall of China, Legalism, Qin's death and tomb with Terra Cotta Warriors)

- Han Dynasty (achievements under Emperor Wu Ti, Silk Road, invention of paper, collapse)

- Life in Ancient China (family, women, economy, education, science & technology)

- Confucianism

- Daoism

- Economy & Trade

What's included in the download:

*Editable PowerPoint presentation (86 slides, text is all editable, graphics are not editable), BC and BCE versions are included

*Google Slides presentation

*PDF Guided Notes (9 pages, not editable)

*Fillable PDF version of Guided Notes (9 pages, students type into text boxes, not editable in Adobe), added April 2020

*Google Slides version of Guided Notes (9 pages, students type into text boxes, not editable in Slides)

*PDF Guided Notes key (9 pages, not editable)

*Editable Guided Notes (8 pages, created in PowerPoint without the fancy clip art and fonts)

**This zip file contains PDFs and PowerPoint files. Some of these files are editable, but even once edited, they are considered derivative works and are only for your personal classroom use and may not be shared without the purchase of additional licenses and may not be sold.**

***This PowerPoint set is included in the following bundles: Ancient China Bundle, Ancient World Mega Bundle Set #1, and World History Mega Bundle***

This download contains files that may be printed and copied or used digitally. Use whichever version fit best with your class. The other version remain yours in case you ever need to use them (in case your school makes the jump to 1:1 classes sometime in the future or if you have a student whose IEP requires a hard copy of assignments instead of digital ones).

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Questions? Email me at andrea@musingsofahistorygal.com.

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