ABC Book China

ABC Book China

By:Glen Cathey

A

    A is for acupuncture, a medicinal practice the Chinease used to sooth sickness

B

    B is for Bureaucracy, which was developed to govern the growing population in the Han dynasty.

C

    C is for Cavalry, Which the Emporer of the Qin dynasty used to gain dominance over the warring states.

D

    D is for deffect which confucius did when he saw his ruler was shallow and greedy. 

E

    E is for Emporer which the chinese used as a king.

F

    F is for formal order which the chinease instilled to gain complete dominance over all of the states.

G

    G is for The Great Wall of China which was built to defend the inhabitants from invaders.

H

    H is for The Himilaya's, these huge giants are what cause china to have a lot of protection from invaders.

I

    I is for irrigation, a skill the chinese developed that made it a lot easier to water their crops.

J

    J is for Japan which the chinese conquored in their late reign that later escaped chinese rule.

K

    K is for King otherwise known as the Emporer in China that basically rules everything.

L

    L is for Liu Bang, the man who founded the Han dynasty.

M

    M is for Millet a commonly grown type of grain in China that was as popular as wheat is for americans.

N

    N is for noodles an invention that the Chinese used and made because of its inexpensive quality

O

    O is for Oracles these were usually poeple that made oracle bones.

 P

    P is for Porcelain, a high priced good that the chinese sold on the silk road.

Q

    Q in for Qsin Shihuangdi, a ruler of the Qin dynasty that founded the dynasty    

R

    R is for a rocky desert that was and is called the Gobi desert that lays to the norh of China.

S

    S is for Steel, a high priced good that was sold on the silk road.

T

    T is for the Temple of Confucous, A temple built in Confucuos's home town.

U

    U is for Umbrella an invention of the chinese used we use it today to keep water off of people.

V

    V is for the villages that were scattered across the silk road.

W

    W is for the Water Wheel which was used to produce power.

X

    X is for Xiongnu, a nomad tribe that invaded china very frequently and were the reason of the great wall.

Y

    Y is for Yu the Great, an Emporer in the Xia dynasty that tried to help the farmers by stopping the flood.

Z

    Z is for Zhu another Emporer of Xia that moved the capotal from of china from  Yuan to Laoqiu.