The Qin and Han Dynasties

Roundtable
 Constructive Response Questions
2. Looking at China’s cycle of dynasties, using
specific examples, how have the Chinese failed to
learn from the mistakes made in the past?

4. Using specific examples to back up your opinion,

which Chinese dynasty was most successful as a
ruling dynasty?
 What will we learn?
 Chinese culture
 Shi Huangdi and the Qin Dynasty
 The Han Dynasty
 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  Legalism
• The natural order is more • A highly efficient and
important than the social powerful government is
order the key to social order
• A universal force guides • Punishments are useful to
all things maintain social order
• Human beings should live • Thinkers and their ideas
simply and in harmony should be strictly
with nature controlled by the
government
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 2 nd
Emperor took power
 Began the Han Dynasty
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.
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
 Constructive Response Questions
2. Looking at China’s cycle of dynasties, using
specific examples, how have the Chinese failed to
learn from the mistakes made in the past?

4. Using specific examples to back up your opinion,

which Chinese dynasty was most successful as a
ruling dynasty?