Saturday, December 1, 2007

Chinese Shang Dynasty History

There are many Dynasties in China. The dynasties have different kings, religion and different cultures. I searched about Shang Dynasty. I think the Shang Dynasty has only a little bit of informations because it was the second Dynasty.

The Shang Dynasty started in ancient time because their technology was not good enough. People used bronze to make something. During the Shang Dynasty, there weren't good technology or things that are used that time. The picture of the map is where the Shang Dynasty located and people of north, east, south, and west. The Shang Dynasty located near the Yellow River.

The Shang Dynasty had gain power because the king and the warriors were very powerful to fight, and the nobles sat the top of the social ladder. The most of peasants had very little and barely made it through the taxes that the king enforced.

The economy system was quiet good. The serfs and slaves preformed all economic functions of society. The main thing was farming or the harvest of crops. Many farmers also knew how to cultivate the silkworm and they made many beautiful cloth which would be used for clothing. Silks became China’s main export. The artisans formed another group of the economic structure. Many artisans manufactured weapons, ritual vessels, jewelry, and other items of interest also people made many things that are related to the art. Each Dynasty had a god. In Shang Dynasty, the god named Shang Ti, he was a head god, rules over all the other gods. They thought the worship of ancestors was very important for them. People in Shang Dynasty really liked the god name Shang Ti. Shang Dynasty's culture achivement was quiet good. People developed their writing skills, Excellent bronze works, they used calender to count the days, and the most of good part was bronze work. They made many things with bronze.

The reasons that Shang Dynasty fall was because the next dynasty became really good and Shang Dynasty couldn't handle how to win them or how to attcked them, but finally Shang Dynasy had fall from other dynasty.


I think there were not too much of information of Shang Dynasty because it was short and the second dynasty in China.


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★SARS in China☆

I will tell you about the SARS in China. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is the one of the natural hazard, which can damage people and envirnment, especially people. It is an illness that caused by a member of the family. Individuals suffering from SARS will manifest symptoms very much like those of a severe cold or the influenza.

People and scientists don't know when the SARS started and they don't know exactly when but people were getting sick in year 2003~2004. It began on December 2003 and January 2004, April 22, 2004. The SARS came from 2 places, which were Southern Guangdong province Beijing, and in Anhui, a province in eastern China.

People in China are the most get SARS because it came from China. When people get SARS, people started to have a fever, aches and pains, headaches, a cough and eventually in some, difficulty breathing and it will take people maybe even death. It is very bad to having SARS. If people have some problems like that, they have to go to check from hospital otherwise it will be worse.

This picture shows that in cases, how many people influenced by SARS. As you see the graph, you can see China has the most population who got SARS. As you know there were most SARS because it started from China. The dark green part means there are the most population or percentage of people who got SARS, the light blue means there are people who got SARS but not much as the dark green and the yellow part means there are not many people who got SARS.

The graph is telling us that the SARS transferred to the other countries as well. As you see the graph, China is the top, Hong Kong is the second and United States is the third. The other countries didn't get SARS much as those 3 countries have. It is good to have not SARS in your country.


The last graph shows you that how many people died in 2003. There were 235 people died in China, 215 in Hong Kong, 28 in Singapore, 22 in Canada, 5 in Vietnam, 2 in Thailand, Malaysia, and Philippines and 1 person in Africa. In total, 530 people died in 2003 because of SARS.


The result that because the SRAS influenced to the animal and when people eat food such as pigs or cows, it can cause. When there is wind that with sand, you have to wear masks to protect. Like the picture at the top.

I hope you know much about SARS and be careful when you go to China. Take care your self not to get SARS!!

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