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HAN DYNASTY
BY NIKO MORRIS AND MICHAEL SUBAH
RULING FAMILIES
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Chinese ruling families and
their peasant armies were
always fighting.
Historians call the years 475
-221 BCE the warring states
period.
CAME TO POWER AND
TRADING
 After the Qin’s empire fell the
Han dynasty came to power.
Europeans prized Chinese
silk and they traded gold and
ivory. Gemstones and glass
for silk, jade, pottery, bronze
and lacquer ware.
Bjorklund, Ruth. Projects about Ancient China. New York: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2006.