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Han Dynasty
Agenda
Bell Ringer: Reading Quiz Chapter 4 and 5.
1. Finish Rome, Review Han China
2. Primary Document Analysis: Han China and the Civil
Service System.
3. The Downfall of a Civilization
1.
4.
Discussion of downfall, modern examples?
Comparative Outlines (Essay Formatting)
Controlling the Empire
• Starts off with a Feudal
System
• A blend of legalist
philosophy and
Confucianism
– Without the sin and
violence.
– Civil Service Examinations
• Taxation Common
– Had to be paid in cash
– Peasants at a disadvantage.
The Economy and Military
• Han suspicious of private
merchants.
– Heavy taxation
– Not allowed to be in public
office.
• Relied on waterways for
transportation.
• Military originally required
– Professional armies
adopted…
Imperial Expansion
• Silk Road becomes a
dominant trade route.
 Tiberius – the ladies are
transferring our money to
foreigners.
 Paper is invented.
 Great Wall expanded under
the Han (not the one
today)
Religion and Culture
 Confucianism is official
Religion.
 Buddhism begins showing
up in Western China.
 Qin idea of terra cotta
army is continued under
the Han.
 Modest Scale
Decline
• Emperors more worried about
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•
•
•
material goods than control.
Noble families take over vast areas
of China, continuing a feudal
existence.
Corruption in the government led
to unrest by peasantry.
Invasion by Northern nomadic
tribes common.
Four hundred years of anarchy and
military rule follow.
Comparative Essay Outline
 Thesis (1)
 Similarity, Difference, and
Analysis
 Valid
Comparison/Contrast (2)
 Evidence (2)
 Direct Comparison (1)
 Analysis, why the
comparison (1)
Reading Quiz #2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
How does geography in Greece lead to the formation of
City-States?
How is government different between Sparta and Athens?
How does Augustus stabilize the newly minted “Roman
Empire”?
How were women treated within Roman Society?
Using evidence from the text, what led to the end of the
Roman empire?