Chapter 6 Lesson 4-Han Dynasty

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Referring back to the Chinese Empires, What philosophy did Shi Huangdi use to rule?

What is Legalism?

What are the ideas of Confucianism?

Review Terms: Patriarchal, Matriarchal, Silk Road, Thervada, Mahayana.

Shiva Terms to know today: Monopoly

Learn the Han Dynasty and ruling techniques.The Fall of the Han Dynasty.

If you were the next Emperor of a new Dynasty after Shi Huangdi, How would you gain the trust and respect of the people?

Write in your notes.

If you were the next Emperor of a new Dynasty after Shi Huangdi, How would you gain the trust and respect of the people?

Write in your notes.

Liu Bang, a peasant fighting in a rebel army, became emperor due to the Chinese belief in the mandate of heaven.

He was the first emperor of the Han dynasty.

Well liked by both warriors and peasants, Liu Bang released the country from strict Legalistic practices and focused on people’s immediate needs.

Liu Bang lowered taxes, gave large plots of land to supporters, and set up a government that expanded on the ideas of the Qin.

• In 140 BC, Emperor Wudi took the throne and shifted the country’s focus back to a strong central government.

• Confucianism became the official government philosophy.

• Wudi built a university that taught Confucian ideals, and awarded his officials with higher rank if they were familiar with Confucian principles.

Han government officials chosen by scores on a Confucian poetry and moral code test

Han started schools to train candidates Curriculum is Confucius’s teachings, Chinese

history, and Chinese law.

List the structure of the Han Dynasty.

How is the structure important to the existence of the Han Dynasty?

Literature

The Han created realistic scenes from everyday life, advanced figure painting, and depictions of religious figures and Confucian scholars.

Fu style: combination of prose and poetryShi style: short lines of verse that could be sung

The Han Chinese made paper by grinding plant fibers into a paste and then setting the paste out to dry in sheets. Later they rolled the dried pulp into scrolls.

Invention of Paper

Art

Seismograph

A device for telling time, the sundial uses the position of the shadows cast by the sun to tell the time of day.

This device measures the strength of an earthquake. Chinese scientists believed that the movement of the earth was a sign of evil times.

Acupuncture is the practice of inserting needles into the skin to cure disease or relieve pain. This practice is still widely used today.

Acupuncture

Sundial

Han rulers love for wealth and pleasure weakened the government; often corrupt and brutal.

The Han dynasty fell in A.D. 220. Fiscal crisis (they were broke) Raised taxes Peasants get angry Revolts lead to the downfall of the govt The Huns attack over the wall China descends into chaos and warlike states rule

for 350 years