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Classical China

What is the Silk road? The silk road is one of the most famous trading routes, and It was a network of routes were ideas and many goods were traded.

What was its significance in Han China? The significance in china was that since silk worms were only growning china the demand for it was high, which expanded trade.

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Classical China Terms – Feel free to add images


 * Shi Huangdi ||  Founder of the brief Qin dynasty  ||
 * Qin ||  Dynasty founded 221 BCE, after the decline of Zhou dynasty  ||
 * Han ||  Dynasty after Qin, 202 BCE, ruled for 400 years  ||
 * Zhou ||  Originally a vassal family of shang china, flourished the second most famose Chinese dynasty 1122 to 256 BCE.  ||
 * Great Wall ||  Chinese defensive fortification intended to keep out the nomadic invaders from the north.  ||
 * Daoism ||  It’s a philosophy associated with Laozi; stressed the need for alignment wit Dao or cosmic force.  ||
 * Confucianism ||  It’s a philosophy that emphasized self control, social and political order.  ||
 * Legalism ||  It’s a philosophy based on strict laws  ||
 * Bureaucracy ||  A government system that divides work into special departments or by nonelected officials.  ||

Leader Analysis Sheet


 * Name of Leader:

Shi Huangdi ||
 * Lifespan: died in 210 BCE || Title:

The King of the Qin Dynasty ||
 * Country/region:

China: the south, to Hong Kong on to the south china sea, and influenced Vietnam. || Years in Power

221 to 210 B.C.E ||
 * Political, Social, & Economic Conditions Prior to Leaders Gaining Power

China was ruled by the Zhou Dynasty. They aren’t known for establishing a strong government but they did influence on culture. The Zhou dynasty expanded the territory. They heightened the central government. They strived to maintain unity in their empire. The Zhou really enforced linguistic unity, called mandarin Chinese. They were the largest group of people who spoke the same language at that time. What led the Zhou dynasty to fall was their focus mostly on cultural unity. The government underwent confusion and centralized government was more of an expectation than a rule. Shi Huangdi came to power to fix the political decay. He became king at age 13. || Shi Huangdi was a strong ruler. He knew that the government needed a reform and that the problem was within the regional power of the aristocrats. He took control of the nobles feudal estates. While he ruled his armies conquered reginal resitance. Shi Huangdi was an expansionist, centralist, and believed in tyranny. ||
 * Ideology, Motivation, Goals:
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Significant Actions & events During Term of Power
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">He built the Great wall of China to protect from invaders, it was 3000 miles long.
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">He had censuses to recalculate the tax and labor services.
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">He burn all books that had to do with confucianism.
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">He made the basic chinese language, Mandarin.
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">He also created censuses.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">He built his own tomb surounded by soldiers. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Short-Term effects:

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 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">The people really disliked his harsh beliefs, tyranny. || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Long-Term Effects
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Helped built the great wall
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">high taxes
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">furthered agriculture
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">promoted manufacturing
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">new irrigational projects
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">﻿promoted manufactoring of silk
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">lead mandarin to be the main language
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">united china

<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__**Confucianism:**__ <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Confucianism has been a religion of the Chinese for two millennia. It has played a big role on the influence of politics and spiritual life. Confucianism has spread to Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. It was originally created by Confucius (551-479B.C), but when he try to present this philosophy the time era of politics declined its entrance into the Chinese world. But later after he had died, his disciples went on trying to spread his teachings. Its was founded around 6th to 5th century B.C.E. Confucianism beliefs are based on human nature and filial piety. Its philosophies on how to be a better person. Filial piety is the respect and support of ones parents, meaning being always very obedient. When referred to the ideal government one belief is that if the people are united and know of punishments they will follow the law and avoid the punishment. When referred to its beliefs are that property without rules becomes chaotic. Its beliefs on superiority are that the mind of a superior man is full of righteousness, and the mind of a mean man is full of gain or greed. Another belief is that by nature all man are very similar but by practice they’re different. But when it came to the spiritual world it was believed that if you didn’t know life how could you know death. <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__**Statement:**__ <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I think confucianism is an easy philosophy to live by. It has good morals based on respect. In confucianism obeying your elders is very imporant. When its applied to government the idea is that if laws are set and there are consiquences to it, people will follow and avoid the punishment. That’s a good way to input laws on society. Also when someone is in power confucianism beliefs imply that the leader should be righteous and respected, not full of greed. That’s important because if the citizens like and respect the leader it would be less likely that they’d rebell or go against him. Confucianism is a simple philosophy on being a honorable and respectful person.

Han Dynasty ESPIRIT CHAR 206 B.C.E to 220 B.C.E




 * E ||  The Han Dynasty promoted trade throughout the world.
 * Promoted trade around Mediterranean with Roman Empire
 * Promoted the Silk Road where it sold paper, silk, and ideas.
 * Manufacture of salt and iron
 * Taxed citizens (central government)
 * Copper coin manufacturing
 * Standard currency & measure trade throughout the empire.
 * Expanded territory into Korea, Indochina, & central Asia. ||
 * S ||  Males were lead in societies and households.
 * Schools to teach men to be bureaucrats.
 * Women had little rights
 * Men learn archery
 * Stressed that the fathers and husbands were leaders.
 * Sons of Han: it led to the culture advancement
 * Mandarins were the nobles, Commoners were the artisans, and mean people lower class, and this made up the social class.
 * They had very strict laws with death as punishments. ||
 * P ||  The Han’s political values were based on bureaucracy and central government.
 * Had less representation then the Qin dynasty.
 * The emperor had military and officials govern smaller regions in their name.
 * Later ministers were appointed to look over military, justice, and finance. ||
 * I ||  Came in direct contact with India and the Parthian empire.
 * Conquered Huns, nomads from the north, Korea, Japan, and Mongolian china.
 * Traded with indo china, Middle East, and Mediterranean. ||
 * R ||  They were polytheistic or believed in philosophies.
 * Shrines were created to worship
 * Believed in Confucius
 * They were introduced to Buddhism because of trade along with Silk Road. ||
 * I || *  Confucianism
 * Daoism
 * Legalism
 * The Chinese language mandarin ||
 * T || *  They created an earthquake detection device.
 * Used pulleys in mining
 * Iron tools
 * Animal collars
 * Advanced in science with astronomy and in art with pottery ||

Summary:

Classical China can be considered one of the most influential and interesting civilizations. China went through 4 Dynasty and only after the Qin and Han came about did it get on track. Shi haungdi was the ruler of the Qin dynasty. He was a fierce leader and began to establish order in china. The last dynasties before his focused on culture for the most part. He united china, started the construction of the great wall, and formalized the official Chinese language called mandarin. After the Qin dynasty’s down fall the Han came to rule. The leader of the Han dynasty was Wu Ti. The Han dynasty took advantage of what had been begun by Shi Huangdi and made china respectable. He finished building the great wall. He promoted trade with Middle East, Roman Empire, and India. During this era the Silk Road flourish and exportation of silk paper and ideas like the philosophy of Buddhism came through there. Wu Ti expanded china’s territory to Korea, indo china, and central Asia. Other philosophies came forth during the Han rule like, Confucianism, Daoism, and legalism.