Documentary Notes

Names of important people:    Lui Bang, ying Qin , shi huangdi, yang di of the Sui , zheng he



Achievements:

- Engineering:    the mass production of weapons and armor made by the Chinese, channel for water to irrigate and stop flooding . Hand di connects neighboring parts by canals and water ways.

- Arcitecture:    Teracotta warriors guard the supposed tomb of shi huangdi

-Inventions: gun powder, paper, water ways and canals which boosted wealth,population and work in china


Challenges:         winter droughts and summer floods , hard to irrigate because of mountains. Also wars between kingdoms led to lower population and stalled any types of new inventions and engineering. Invasion on the Great Wall of china.