Thursday, February 14, 2013

Engineering an Empire Notes


Names of important people:
Li Bing 
Shi Huangdi
Liu Bang
Yang Di
Zheng He

Achievements:

  • ·      Engineering
The grand canal 
Levy’s that would control the Ming river from flooding and that control a water supply for food production
Blasted an irrigation channel right through a mountain  
The Great Wall of China
Shi Huangdi’s tomb 
The Terracotta Army 
Dozens of Chines ships

  • ·      Architecture
 The Great Wall of China
 Shi Huangdi’s underground tomb

  • ·      Inventions
Blast furnaces 
Deep Drilling 
Tamped earth method
Moveable type printing
Bronze cannons

Challenges:
The nomads
The Mongols    
 Internal uprising 


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