1. 2. Who is the founder of Taoism?
Bell Ringer
Using p.147 of your textbook, answer the following questions:
1. What is Taoism?
2. Who is the founder of Taoism?

2. Copy the chart below into your notebook
QIN DYNASTY
HAN DYNASTY

3. The Terra-cotta Army Discovered in 1974
6,000 life-sized statues of soldiers, horses, bronze chariots and weapons
These soldiers were placed here to watch over the tomb of Shi Huangdi: founder of the Qin Dynasty and China’s first Emperor.
Each soldier is modeled after a real soldier – no statue looks the same

4. The Qin Dynasty
Only lasted two generations but had huge accomplishments
Shi Huangdi means, “First Emperor” (original name was Zhao Zheng)
Built the Great Wall of China to protect the Empire from nomads on the Northern border – connected walls that previous rulers had built
Took 10 years to complete
Some experts believe it is about 1,500 miles long!

5. The Qin Dynasty
To help put down rebellions in the Empire, Shi Huangdi put thousands of farmers to work building roads – this allowed his army to rush to the scene of any uprisings
Divided China into areas called districts – each district had a government run by the Emperor’s trusted officials
Killed or imprisoned any local rulers who opposed him
The Qin Dynasty is sometimes spelled, “Chin” which is where the name, “China” comes from

6. Qin Dynasty
Shi Huangdi declared that one currency: type of money, be used throughout China (also common weights and measures, an improved system of writing and a law code.)
Made it easier for one region of China to trade with another
He tried to control the thoughts of his people
Outlawed the ideas of Confucius and required that people learn the philosophies of the Qin scholars
Practiced a brutal form of Legalism: the idea that people should be punished for bad behavior and rewarded for good behavior
Ordered all books in China to be burned except those about medicine, technology, and farming and killed hundreds of scholars that protested the order.
Coins had holes in the middle so they could be worn around the neck on string (Why would it be important to have common currency, weights and measures, writing and laws?)

8. The End of the Qin Dynasty
A new dynasty rises
The new dynasty rules
The dynasty grows weak
The dynasty falls
A period of violence follows
After the death of Shi Huangdi (210 B.C.), there was four years of chaos and civil war
His son was murdered and his grandson could not hold the Empire together – ending the dynasty after only 15 years

9. The Han Dynasty
Liu Bang: The founder of the Han Dynasty (was one of the rebels who helped overthrow the Qin dynasty)
Born a peasant
Created a stable, less- harsh government (lasted 400 years)
Set up the civil service system again

10. The Han Dynasty
Wudi: Chinese emperor who brought the Han Dynasty to its greatest strength.
Liu Bang’s great- grandson who took throne at 15 years old
Main interests were war and military matters
Expanded the Empire

11. The End of the Han Empire
Over time the Empire began to weaken with a series of very young rulers
Roads and canals fell into disrepair
As the rule of the emperors weakened, warlords: local leaders of armed groups, gained power.
Cao Pei – tried to control the empire by ruling through the emperor
220 A.D. declared and end to the Han and beginning of the Wei Dynasty (only lasted 50 years)
One of the young rulers was only 100 days old!