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Chapter Five
Section Three
The Warring States Period 403-221 B.C.
Make an inference about the above title.
Many small kingdom began warring with one another for power!!!
Behind the Great Wall
Watch
Eventually the Qin
Dynasty came to power
Shi Huangdi which means first emperor
Shi Huangdi sought to strengthen China through harsh rule.
The first goal that Shi Huangdi wanted to accomplish was
to protect
china from its enemies.
Shi Huangdi was a
legalist
Legalists believe that people
are basically bad.
Who knows what he ordered the people to build?
The Great Wall of China
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Shi Huangdi- 1st emperor
harsh rule
Protect china from enemies
Legalist- people are basically bad
Built Great Wall- (connected all the
pieces)
Take the tour
Shi Huangdi wanted to control their thoughts!!
Outlawed the ideas of Confucius and other
philosophers
Spy System:
•To make sure everyone did their job correctly, First
Emperor Qin set up a spy system.
• People had to spy on each other - it was the law.
• People had to spy on each at work and at home in
their neighborhood or village.
•If people turned in lawbreakers,
they were rewarded
• If they did not, they were executed.
•It was a simple system
•Worked very well.
Restricting Freedoms
Economics during the Qin Dynasty
•Created one currency (Currency-type of money)
•Common weights and measures
•Improved system of writing
•Law code
Shi Huangdi was a legalists.
Legalists believe that people are basically bad.
A very strict form of legalism was practiced during his reign
All book were to burned and when scholars protested the order he had them kkilled
you’re a farmer in 1974 in Northern China
As you dig your field with your fellow
farmers you find some terra-cotta
You don’t think much about the find until
about five or so feet down and you find a
head made out of terra-cotta
What up???—that’s what I would
think!!!
Archaeologists took over the dig and found over 6,000 lifesize statues of soldiers and horses, along with bronze
chariots and metal weapons
For more than 2,000 years, these buried soldiers
had kept watch at the tomb of --------
The tomb of -------•Treasure-filled tomb
•Laid out like a giant map of the empire
•Models of the Huang and other rivers flowed
with mercury pumped by machines
•On the ceiling, sparkled bright stars
•Traps set up– crossbows that shoot at tomb
entrance
Click the picture for the real thing!!!!
Go to Museum
Click here to see the battle
and learn more about the warriors!!!!
Cool
Eventually Shi Huangdi died and his Dynasty
was taken over by -------
But before we go there one more story?!??!!??!!!!?!?!??
The Han Dynasty wanted to find ways to rule more
fairly?!?!?!? And give the nobles less power.
Han rulers kept the Qin Dynasty’s system of
government.
Government jobs were given to the
educated rather than just nobles.
Wudi (Woo Dee) was the first strong
ruler of the Han Dynasty!!!!
His rule lasted from 140 B. C.
to 87 B. C.
Han Wudi, ascended the throne at the age of 15.
He was the fifth emperor of the Western Han Dynasty
and reigned from 141BC
to 86BC, which is one of the most celebrated
periods in Chinese history.
Wudi carried out a series of reforms and
devoted himself to military conquests and territorial expansion.
Wudi main goal was to expand the Chinese empire by
Conquering other lands
Paper was invented or discovered during the Han Dynasty
During the Han Dynasty the teachings of Confucius became important again
Because Wudi wanted to bring back respect for traditon
Slide 12 Movie Behind the Great Wall of China 125 hour in time
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Slide 25
206 BC: Han Dynasty Extends the Great
Wall to Protect Movement of Goods on the
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