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unit 5 ancient china
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- 1—ANCIENT CHINA UNIT 5
- 2How long did emperor shi huangdi rule china221 to 210 BC
- 3what was emperor shi Huang name before the establishment of the Qin dynasty?king Zheng
- 4what was THE REAit was its strategically advantageous geographic location
Qin economic advantages - 5what was the one of the reasons or opinions of J.A.J Roberts on iron swordsarchaeological evidence has failed to support the thesis that Qin enjoyed some kind of metallurgical superiority over its rivals
- 6where did Huangdi establish his capital city atit was at Xianyang not far from modern Xian.
- 7what name did emperor shi change his name towhat name did emperor shi change his name to
- 8Why did he include 'sovereign'?to show that all people recognized him as supreme ruler of the empire
- 9why didn't Shi huangdi appoint his sons to help him govern his landbecause they would fight for land after the deceased father
- 10how did employing governors instead of his sons help ancient chinato avoid the collapse of his empire
- 11what was one of the ways he reformed the government besides the ones mentioned aboveby reforming his administration
- 12why did he abolish primogenitureto weaken the authority of the nobles
- 13why did he standardized languageto make one language everyone in the empire could understand
- 14why did he standardized measurementsto make one measurement in the empire could understand and so trade would be easier
- 15why did he make a new legal systemall rules and punishments were same through out the system
- 16why did Shi Huangdi punish the Scholarsbecause they were critical of him and his harsh laws
- 17what is the great wall of chinaEmperor Shi huangdi ordered the series of small walls to be joined into a long continuous wall to be strengthened and to be a defendant against barbarian attacks and it stretches to be 5760 km long where it is the worlds biggest graveyard.
- 18were the 3 attempts successful to assassinate the emperorNO
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GET IT,I SAID NOOOOOOOO - 19did he find immortalityno ,so he decided to make a tomb filled with some remnants alike to ancient Egypt.
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