Imperial China: A Self-Sufficient Empire: Social Studies Unit 4, Grade 7 (Letters & Devotion)

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Imperial China: A Self-Sufficient Empire is Unit 4 of World Geography and the Medieval World, 500-1500 CE (Grade 7), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 10 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 64 pages.

• China’s internal river-and-plain geography (North China Plain, Yellow/Yangtze Rivers, Grand Canal)
• The causal link between China’s barrier geography and its degree of self-sufficiency, contrasted with West Africa
• The Mandate of Heaven as political justification
• The stages of the dynastic cycle (rise, peak, decline, collapse) as evidenced by economic and political indicators
• Confucian and Legalist justifications for obedience to government
• The civil service exam system and centralized bureaucracy
• The tribute system as controlled, state-run trade
• Sourcing and perspective in Tang/Song primary source excerpts
• The relative weight of economic versus political causes in the dynastic cycle
• Transferability of the tribute-system model to a geography unlike China’s

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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