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China

People traded lot of goods on the silk road . They traded spices, clothing, fruits, tea, jade, flowers, woolen goods, blankets, curtains, skin, ornaments, even animals such as horses, sheep, and peacocks.

The silk road

At that time the Shang was being ruled by King Zhou. He did many unfair things to the people which grew a great rage in them. A man named Wenwang decided it was time to attack the king and trusted his son Ji Fa (Wuwang). After Wenwang died Ji Fa succeeded him he made all the preparations for the war so that’s when the Shang ended.

The Zhou dynasty

Qin Shi Huang was the first emperor of China. Qin united the warring states , he formed China in 221 B.C. After

That he declared himself emperor.

The emperor standardized weighs

Measures, bureaucracy, law, and

Scholarship. He was a cruel ruler

Who killed or harshly punished anyone

who disagreed with him the Qin dynasty ended

Soon after his death. Fun fact: Shi Huang means

first emperor

Qin Shi Huang

People worked on the great wall for years. Each emperor who had power added pieces to the wall for more protection. Emperor Qin wanted much better barricade to protect his kingdom. To do so he used peasant, captured enemies, criminals or anyone else who irritated him to help build the wall. Workers died of exhaustion or diseases. Most emperors used the same system

That Qin did. Fun fact: the great wall

cannot be seen from space.

Great wall of China

The Chinese had many inventions some of the inventions that the Chinese made were gunpowder, magnetic compasses, spinning wheels, paper money, porcelain, coal, iron, writing, the great wall, canals, locks, mechanical clocks, roads, and relay hostels

Chinese inventions

Fact 1.) fortune cookies are not a traditional Chinese custom they were actually made in the early 1900 in San Francisco.

Fact 2.) china uses over 45 billion chopsticks per year.

Fact 3.) almost a third of San Francisco air pollution comes from China.

Fact 4.) nearly 700 million Chinese people drink contaminated water.

Chinese fun facts