This week our readings focused on religion and how it showed up in China. Our textbook chapter for the week was “Graves, Grave digging, Ancestors and Luck” and the first thing that I found really interesting was that people’s bodies would be dug back up after a certain amount of time. For a culture that […]
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This week we started out reading a chapter from the textbook titled “Dragons.” It talked about how there were three theories of their origin: dinosaurs, snakes, and crocodiles. But it’s important to realize that a dragon can look like anything you want it to look like. The Chinese used dragons as a way to explain […]
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This week I read an article called Beyond The Terra-cotta Warriors and generally it was a main overview of what the terracotta warriors were but didn’t go into much detail. When looking further into the author of the article I found out that the author was a student at Vassar college, completing this article as […]
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