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Module 1 Europe Task— 教案 ■Goals ● To learn to make a file ■Procedures Step 1: Surfing the Inter for related information Step 2: Making a poster display of your fact file Shanxi Shanxi is a northern province of the People39。s Republic of China. Its onecharacter abbreviation is Jin (晉 ), after the state of Jin that existed here during the Spring and Autumn Period. Shanxi has an area of 150,000 km178。 and a population of million. Shanxi39。s name literally means mountains39。 west, which refers to the province39。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 threeway split into the states of Han, Zhao and Wei in 403 BC, the traditional date taken as the start of the Warring States Period (403 BC 221 BC). By 221 BC all of