CHRONOLOGY

Neolithic Period ca. 7000 - ca. 2000 b.c.e.
Xia dynasty (protohistoric) ca. 2100 - ca. 1600 b.c.e.
Shang dynasty ca. 1600 - ca. 1100 b.c.e.
Zhou dynasty ca. 1100 - 256 b.c.e
      Western Zhou ca. 1100 - 771 b.c.e.
       Eastern Zhou         770 - 256 b.c.e.
            Spring & Autumn period         770 - 476 b.c.e.
            Warring States period         475 - 221 b.c.e.
Qin dynasty         221 - 207 b.c.e.
Han dynasty 206 b.c.e. - 220 c.e.
Period of disunity 200 - 589
                 Note: Sui dynasty 589 - 618
Although the Sui dynasty was declared in 581, China was not unified by conquest until 589.
Tang dynasty 618 - 907
Liao dynasty 916 - 1125
Song dynasty 960 - 1279
         Northern Song 960 - 1127
         Southern Song 1127 - 1279
Jin dynasty 1115 - 1234
Yuan dynasty 1279 - 1368
Ming dynasty 1368 - 1644
Qing dynasty 1644 - 1911
Republic of China 1911 - 1949
People's Republic of China 1949 -- present

LIST OF OBJECTS
(in most cases, pictures will suffice in place of the object itself)

  1. fireworks
  2. Terra Cotta soldiers
  3. rudder
  4. stirrups
  5. wood block prints
  6. landscape painting
  7. oracle bone or shell
  8. Shang bronze sculpture
  9. Ming porcelain
  10. a diary account by Marco Polo about China
  11. a picture of Empress Ci Xi
  12. a picture of Mao
  13. an account of ethnic tension in Tibet
  14. a picture of the Tiananmen Square Massacre
  15. a copy of " | Chang"
  16. a copy of the "Book of Songs"
  17. a copy of "The Analects"
  18. The Great Wall
  19. silk robes
  20. the Grand Canal
  21. a water clock
  22. a pagoda
  23. a Mongolian Warrior
  24. The Forbidden City
  25. a picture of a Taiping soldier
  26. a picture of a Boxer Soldier
  27. a picture of Sun Yixian
  28. a picture of Jiang Jieshi (Chang Kaishek)

SAMPLE

This is a SAMPLE of how a student presented a "discovered" object (see Step 1) and the summary which explains the significance of the object (see Step 2).

Ox scapula fragments (oracle bone)

    Ox scapula fragments (oracle bone)
    Shang dynasty (ca. 1600-ca. 1100 B.C.E.), updated, from the reign of the king Wu Ding (ca 1198-ca 1189 B.C.E.).
    Two fragments; dimensions vary (a: 4.8 x 7.5 cm; b: 27.7 x 15.2 cm).

People in early China tried to tell the future by Communicating with spirits. They would inscribe questions onto an animal bone or turtle shell. After boring holes through the bone or shell, they would insert a stick into it, which they would then heat. As the stick expanded, the bone cracked and a shaman, or person who could communicate with spirits, interpreted the cracks to read the future.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ellis, E.G. & Elser, A. (1997) World History, Connections Today New Jeresy: Prentice Hall

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