UnitChina

__** HW: October 11th, 2011 **__

//It is evident that Zhu Di truly did not understand what was happening to his rule, because Zhu Di was getting poisoned and suffered through strokes and many health problems.//
 * Is there evidence here that Zhu Di truly did not understand what was happening to his rule?**

//Near the end of the emperor’s life, he faced many political problems. Construction of the Forbidden City, the Grand Canal, the fleet of treasure ships and the repair of hundreds of miles of the Great Wall; Enormous strains on China’s economy.//
 * List all the things that happened to the old emperor near the end of his life.**

//Because China closed down all of the major ports and prevented the ships from voyaging across the world, this changed the history of not only China but of the World. Since China closed down the major ports and prevented ships from traveling around the world, this limited China from gaining informations from other countries and trading with other countries. Because China was not able to communicate with the other countries, Europe outran China and enabled Europe to take center stage in the world.//
 * All voyages of the treasure ships are to be stopped." Explain how this edict changed the history of not only China but of the WORLD. How did this leave open the "door" for Europe to take center stage now?**

__HW: October 7th, 2011__ What route might they have all taken? Describe it... Holy Roman Empire: Ship -> Indian Ocean -> Malanca -> South China -> Through Taiwan Byzantium: Take the silk road Venice: Ride the ship and travel until you reach the end of the Mediterranean sea -> Move up -> Take the silk road England: Ride the ship -> France -> Ride the ship to travel on the Mediterranean sea -> France: Ship -> Indian Ocean -> Malanca -> South China -> Through Taiwan Castille: Ship -> Indian Ocean -> Malanca ->South China -> Through Taiwan Portugal: Ship -> Indian Ocean -> Malanca -> South China -> Through Taiwan

Look carefully at the Yuan and Ming Dynasties and make some generalizations about China under those dynasties. Size? Change from previous dynasties? From your reading, make any observations you can about the two time periods. The territories of previous dynasties in China displays China's expansion toward today's shape. As it commences from 1000BCE in the Zhou Dynasty, it continuously separates and unites, until after 1892 the Qing dynasty. China possesses a relatively long history, in its growth over numerous dynasties rose and collapsed.

Using your math skills, refer to the following map and figure out how big that new capital would be. Although not an exponential surge, the location of the majority of urban population has shifted from 1400 to 1600. Using the key, there were approximately 50,000 inhabitants in London. To relate this to China, Beijing had as many as fifty times as that of London's population. Therefore, there must have been roughly 2,500,000 people in Beijing. This indicates that Beijing was a huge, populous capital city.

The Forbidden City is now the Palace Museum, and is located at the centre of the map below: Can you find the old city in the modern city? Where is it? What is there now? On the map designed by Zhu Di, the Forbidden City takes up a large area in the total area of the city. Also, each temple has a huge size. On the other hand, those places have the same area as any other large gymnasium, museum, or department store. The details of the modern map of the city are very thorough and precise. To conclude, places like temples and the Forbidden City do not seem to hold much significance in present-day Beijing.

If it WAS, where would it reach if it began at the Yalu River? Use the map in MWH Atlas p A18-19 to estimate where you would end up if the wall really extended 6,400 kms due west of Beijing. If the wall really extended to the west of Beijing for 6,400 kilometers, the wall will end at present day Iraq.

Through what MODERN countries did the silk roads go? The silk road went through the following modern countries: Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, China (including Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region), Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgistan, Kyrgistan, and Saudi Arabia.

__ HW: October 5, 2011 __