3 4 Rise and Fall of Chinese Empires

3. 4 Rise and Fall of Chinese Empires

The Qin Dynasty • Civil Wars • 221 B. C. – 206 B. C. • Qin Shi Huangdi

The Qin Dynasty • Adopted Legalism – Stronger central government – Three ministries • Civil • Military • Censorate

The Qin Dynasty • Unified China – Monetary System – Road System • Expanded South to modern day Vietnam

The Qin Dynasty • Concern over Xiongnu • Built system of walls for protection – Great Wall of China • current wall built 1, 500 years later

Han Dynasty • One of the greatest dynasties • 202 B. C. – 220 A. D. • Liu Bang – peasant origin

Han Dynasty • Replaced Legalism with Confucianism • Kept three ministries • Kept provinces

Han Dynasty • Government officials chosen by merit not birth • Civil Service Examination • Expanded to South China Sea

Han Dynasty • Free Peasants Suffered – Required • Military Service • Month’s forced labor – Population increase = decreased plot size • Free Farmers became Tenant Farmers

Han Dynasty • Technology Progressed – Textiles – Water mills – iron Casting • led to the invention of steel – Rudder and Fore-and-Aft Rigging • Sailing into the wind • Sail into Indian Ocean – Increased trade – Paper

Han Dynasty • • • Rulers too involved with pleasure Aristocrats Peasant revolts Han Dynasty fell in 220 Civil Wars Next dynasty not established for 400 years