the qin and han dynasties
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The Qin and Han Dynasties. Roundtable. Roundtable Guidelines. When it is your turn to read your answer, r-e-a-d s-l-o-w-l-y! You may have to repeat your answer. Spell out names. If you are not reading, YOU ARE LISTENING! You will be sent to Siberia if you cannot follow this rule. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Qin and Han Dynasties
Roundtable
Roundtable Guidelines When it is your turn to read your
answer, r-e-a-d s-l-o-w-l-y! You may have to repeat your answer.
Spell out names. If you are not reading, YOU ARE
LISTENING! You will be sent to Siberia if you cannot follow this rule.
No rude interruptions.
Confucius and the Social Order 5 Basic
Relationships:• Ruler & Subject• Father & Son• Husband & Wife• Older Brother &
Younger Brother• Friend & Friend
Chinese Ethical Systems Daoism
• The natural order is more important than the social order
• A universal force guides all things
• Human beings should live simply and in harmony with nature
Legalism• A highly efficient
and powerful government is the key to social order
• Punishments are useful to maintain social order
• Thinkers and their ideas should be strictly controlled by the government
Yin and Yang
The Qin Dynasty
Shi Huangdi First Emperor Used Legalism
because he wanted to control ideas so he could have unlimited power
Murdered Confucius thinkers
Built Great Wall Terra Cotta Statues
guarded his tomb
Social Advances under Shi Huangdi
Highway of 4,000 miles of roads Set standards for writing, currency,
and weights and measurements Standards for vehicle wheel axels so
wheels could fit in ruts on roads
Fall of Shi Huangdi Over worked the people on the Great
Wall and his tomb Very Paranoid of assassination
attempts Apparently died from mercury pills Peasants rebelled just two years after
2nd Emperor took power Began the Han Dynasty
The Han Dynasty
Liu Bang
Empress Lu
Wudi “The Martial Emperor”
Fall of the Han First Han was overthrown by Wang
Mang Wang Mang was assassinated New Han Dynasty started by member
of old imperial family Social, political, and economic
weaknesses of the 2nd Han led to downfall
Disintegrated into 3 rival kingdoms