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The Qin and Han Dynasties

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.

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The Qin and Han Dynasties

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  1. The Qin and Han Dynasties Roundtable

  2. 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.

  3. Confucius and the Social Order • 5 Basic Relationships: • Ruler & Subject • Father & Son • Husband & Wife • Older Brother & Younger Brother • Friend & Friend

  4. 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

  5. Yin and Yang

  6. The Qin Dynasty

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. The Han Dynasty

  11. Liu Bang

  12. Empress Lu

  13. Wudi “The Martial Emperor”

  14. 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

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