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Mind Map by fercalvocortez, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by fercalvocortez
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Rise and Fall of
Chinese Empires
- The Qin Dynasty
- Changes under
the Qin Dynasty
- Central bureaucracy:
-The civil division
-The military division
-The censorate
- Central government:
Provinces and Counties
- Officials at these levels
were appointed and
dismissed by the emperor.
- Officials at these levels
were appointed and
dismissed by the emperor.
- They created a
single monetary
system and a
system of roads
throughout the
entire empire.
- Dug a canal from the Chang Jiang
in central China to what is now
modern city of Guangzhou to
supply the armies so they could
advance to the south, extending
the border of China
- Central bureaucracy:
-The civil division
-The military division
-The censorate
- The Great Wall
- Chinese began to build
walls to keep the Xiongnu
out of their territory.
- Qin Shinhuangdi worked to strengthen the existing
system of walls with his project called The Great Wall of
China. He linked the defensive walls against nomads
already existing to create ''The Wall of Ten Thousand Li''
- Chinese began to build
walls to keep the Xiongnu
out of their territory.
- Changes under
the Qin Dynasty
- The Han Dynasty
- Political Structure
- Confucianism: basis for
the creation of a new
state of philosophy.
- Continued the Qin system of
choosing government officials on
the basis of merit rather than birth.
- They introduced the civil service
examination and established a
schoolto train these candidates.
- Students were
expected to learn
the teachings of
Confucius, Chinese
history and law.
- Confucianism: basis for
the creation of a new
state of philosophy.
- Expansion of
the Empire
- They added the southern
regions below the Chang
Jiang into the empire.
- Han armies moved westward
into central Asia, extending
the Chinese boundary there.
- They added the southern
regions below the Chang
Jiang into the empire.
- Society in the
Han Empire
- They reduced the
average size of the
individual farm plot
to about one acre
per person.
- Poor peasants were forced to sell
their land and become tenant
(paid rents ranging up to half of
the anual harvest) farmers.
- They reduced the
average size of the
individual farm plot
to about one acre
per person.
- Technology in
the Han Empire
- Developed textile manufacturing, water
mills for grinding grain, iron casting, paper.
- Iron casting --> invention of steel
- With rudder and fore-and-aft
rigging ships could sail into
the wind for the first time.
- Developed textile manufacturing, water
mills for grinding grain, iron casting, paper.
- Political Structure
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