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