Bowers Museum Case Study

Recommendation After taking the tour around the Bowers Museum, I would recommend the Bowers Museum to any person that is interested in studying the culture of Ancient China. However, the Bowers Museum is not perfect. As stated earlier in the essay, The Ancient China exhibit does not fully represent the culture of Ancient China. There is no artifact that represent the daily lives of the average person in Ancient China. People like artisans, peasants, and farmers are not represented in the museum exhibit at all. The museum focuses heavily on the nobility and wealthy. Despite this flaw, the Bowers Museum is still a valuable source of information to learn about non-western culture like Ancient China because the artifacts. In addition, there is another displayed in conjunction with the Chinese exhibit called Spirits And Headhunters: Art Of The Pacific. Overall, the Bowers Museum is a worthy place to explore non-western culture like the one about Ancient China.
Ancient China
Environment
The environment of Ancient China has played a major role in influencing Ancient Chinese society. The environment can be broken down to several parts. The first part is the soil. According to Ambio, a scientific journal, “ The middle and lower watersheds of the Yellow River plain were comprised primarily of fertile flatlands, a topography highly conducive to farming
As stated previously, the soil in Ancient China was ideal for farming crops and the proximities of the lakes allowed population to flourish. In fact, the origin of agriculture can be traced back in China. In a scientific journal called Current Anthropology, the articles points out to two subcenters of the origin of agriculture, “the middle and lower Yangtze River areas, where rice agriculture was first developed” and “in North China along the Yellow River, where the origin of dry-land agriculture is centered” (Zhao