Module 1 Europe

Period 7 TASK—Preparing a fact file on a region of China

■Goals

●     To learn to make a file

■Procedures

Step 1: Surfing the Internet for related information

Step 2: Making a poster display of your fact file

Shanxi

Shanxi is a northern province of the People's Republic of China. Its one-character abbreviation is Jin (晋), after the state of Jin that existed here during the Spring and Autumn Period.

Shanxi has an area of 150,000 km² and a population of 32.97 million.

Shanxi's name literally means "mountains' west", which refers to the province's location west of the Taihang Mountains.

Shanxi borders Hebei to the east, Henan to the south, Shaanxi to the west, and Inner Mongolia to the north. The capital of Shanxi is Taiyuan.

History

Shanxi was the location of the powerful state of Jin during the Spring and Autumn Period (722 BC - 403 BC), which underwent a three-way split into the states of Han, Zh