1 / 17

Unification of China

Unification of China. Chapter 4 section 4. Key Terms. Confucius Filial piety Bureaucracy Daoism Legalism. I Ching Yin and yang Gin Dynasty Shi Huangdi Autocracy. Confucius and Social Order. China’s most influential scholar Zhou Dynasty Desire to restore order

elaine-hart
Télécharger la présentation

Unification of China

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Unification of China Chapter 4 section 4

  2. Key Terms • Confucius • Filial piety • Bureaucracy • Daoism • Legalism • I Ching • Yin and yang • Gin Dynasty • Shi Huangdi • Autocracy

  3. Confucius and Social Order • China’s most influential scholar • Zhou Dynasty • Desire to restore order • Led a scholarly life

  4. Confucius and the Social Order • Five relationships • 1 ruler and subject • 2 father and son • 3 husband and wife • 4 older brother and younger brother • 5 friend and friend • Code of conduct regulated relationships • Loyal and law abiding

  5. Confucius and the Social Order • 3 relationships based on family • Filial piety-respect for parents and ancestors • Devoting ones self to their parents and ancestors • Honoring their memories after death

  6. Confucius and the Social Order • Govern wisely • Confucius overwhelmed people • With kindness • Courtesy • Crime vanished overnight • Analects-Confucius words in a book

  7. Confucius Ideas About Government • Education • From humbly born to gentleman • Bureaucracy-a trained civil service who ran the government • Confucianism- never a religion • Foundation of government and order

  8. Other Ethical Systems • Daoists- natural order involves relationships with all living things • Laozi- founder • Doa- means the way • Only humans fail to follow • Argue about right and wrong • Daoism-philosophy of Laozi

  9. Legalists Urge Harsh Rule • Legalism founders- Hanfeizi and Li Si • Highly efficient and powerful government is the way • Ruler should provide rich rewards for good • Harsh punishment for bad

  10. Legalists Urge Harsh Rule • Control both ideas and actions • Burn books that criticizezcriticisms • Prince to rule, people to obey

  11. The Qin Dynasty Unifies China • Qin Dynasty-3rd century BC • 221 BC • Shi Huangdi-first emperor began reign • Fought invaders doubled China’s size • Crushed political opposition

  12. The Qin Dynasty Unifies China • Commanded all noble families to live in the capitol • Uprooted 120,000 families • Seized their land • Made 36 administrative district • Li Su murdered Confucian scholars

  13. The Qin Dynasty Unifies China • Practical books • About medicine • Farming saved • Autocracy-a government who has unlimited power and uses it in an arbitrary manner

  14. Program of Separation • Built 4000 miles of roads • Set standards for • Writing • Law • Currency • Weights and measures • Irrigation increased • Trade blossomed

  15. A Program of Centraliztion • Harsh taxes • Repressive government • Unpopular • Shi Huangdi – unification expense freedom

  16. Great Wall of China • Scholars and the poor hated Shi Huangdi • Forced to work on defensive wall • Hundreds of thousands to build • Work on the wall or die • Harsh coonditions

  17. The Fall of the Qin • Second Qin Emperor • Peasants rebelled • Marched to capitol 202 BC • Han Dynasty started • One of the longest

More Related