The document summarizes how China has changed over time in various areas such as technology, dynasties, government, writing systems, art, fashion, economics, architecture, and religion. It provides details on developments in each of these areas from past dynasties like Tang and Song to the present day. The writing system has evolved from traditional Chinese characters to simplified characters. Government transitioned from dynastic rule to a republic and then communism. Religions have also changed, with Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism declining and new faiths like Protestantism growing.

1. China

3. These are only a few of the examples of how China has advanced over time, but the information here are apart of the essential history of China.

5. Gunpowder – made for weapon explosives or fireworks

6. Silk – good for trading, warm, strong, and soft

7. Block printing – one block is used on a whole page which is cut

8. Movable block printing – separated characters arranged in frames, and was used over and over again

9. Chinese people during that time were into art, and pottery

10. They were into vigorous brush work

11. Paper-making – made for writing on

13. Tang Dynasty's armies conquered North and West of China

14. First woman to ever conquer China, was Wu Zhao

15. Tang strengthened the government

16. Expanded its networks of roads and canals

17. Lowered taxes from the peasants, because it made the empire stop from rising

18. Tang dynasty fell into rebellion

19. The Tang and Song dynasties were the most advanced empires in the world

21. They traded silk, silver, tea, gunpowder,

22. Lowered peasants taxes

23. Good trading system

24. Buddhism came into Chinese culture

25. Spread of education and wealth

26. China reached golden age

27. Southern cities grew rich

29. People put chemicals in products .For example, there were chemicals in powdered milk, and made the babies suffer. Another example is, there were chemicals in candies which were sent to other countries and they were affected.

30. China developed goods for other countries

31. China has created a massive technology force that no comparison.

33. Although the Chinese and American have very separate beliefs and customs;they share a similar organization of authority.

34. The Chinese people have a house of representatives and a ruling congress just like America.

36. The government became a republic

37. There were no more dynasties

38. China fell into communism

39. The communists changed the traditional Chinese into simple Chinese writing

40. They thought traditional Chinese writing was difficult to write

42. In the past the writing system could be made up of Hanzi, the name of the writing system.

43. In the past the Traditional Chinese writing system consisted of pictures and symbols the represented what they looked like.

44. In the Tang and song dynasty the characters in Chinese were made up of one syllable per character.

45. I n reading Chinese writing you had to accomplish three things: Identify the characters, understand the pronunciation, and find out what characters belong together because there is no spacing in between characters.

47. People would watch operas

48. Practice embroidery

49. Do poetry and draw.

50. As fashion does now, it effects the lives of everyone. In the Tang and Song dynasty young ladies would wear tight shoes that would “perfect” their feet into the lily foot. This also crippled the girl making her the wife to be seen and not heard.

52. As Agriculture prospered so did the amount of money going in and out of China.

53. The sources of government created new ways to continue the blossoming age and that was to create ways to protect them. Ex. The silk road transporting: salt, tea, goods, medicine, textiles, gold and silver and the Grand Canal.

54. Money was dispersed though paper money and coins which made economics do very well and very popular to others cultures.

55. There were many things built like: theaters , tea and wine shops, and small companies.

57. It always consist of 1-12 stokes in a character( like in the past) but now there are a maximum of 64 strikes per character.

58. In this writing system the spelling of one word could could look the same all accept a accent mark. This mark could change the word into any of several different words.

59. This system was built to increase the literacy of the Chinese people as a whole.

61. The Fashion has also changed completely. Some Chinese people where the traditional style of Chinese clothing during special occasions but now they wear a more American style of clothing.

62. Some of the traditional style of clothing has been modified into a more modern trend.

66. Confucianism slowly dissolved in the Chinese culture, and so did Daoism.

67. Over 100 million people in China have faith in a religion but that's only 10% of the population

68. 74 schools for religion in China.

69. China has 13,000 Buddhist temples.

70. There are 1,500 Taoism temples.

71. The protest came to China in the 1980s and they are still here now.

72. In Beijing 2,000 people go to the Catholic mass every sunday

74. Communism - a system of organization in which property and power is equally distributed for all.

75. Republic- a government where the power comes from the citizens and is agreed on by voting and/or representative thoughts.

76. Buddhism- a religion in which focuses on the modest ideals and special way of life.

77. Living like nature- Follow the actions of nature by living and adding to the earth, not taking away, and by letting thing go there way.

79. The answer is : ... The Chinese symbols are in Traditional text.

82. Infomation: www.international.ucla.edu/eas/documents/religion-chn.htm , www.fsmitha.com/h3/h06chin.htm , WORLD HISTORY BY McDougal Littell. ,