1. The Qin and Han Dynasties
Roundtable

2. Constructive Response Questions
Looking at China’s cycle of dynasties, using specific examples, how have the Chinese failed to learn from the mistakes made in the past?
Using specific examples to back up your opinion, which Chinese dynasty was most successful as a ruling dynasty?

3. What will we learn? Chinese culture Shi Huangdi and the Qin Dynasty
The Han Dynasty

4. Roundtable Guidelines
When it is your turn to read your answer, r-e-a-d s-l-o-w-l-y! You may have to repeat your answer.
Spell out names.
If you are not reading, YOU ARE LISTENING! You will be sent to Siberia if you cannot follow this rule.
No rude interruptions.

5. Confucius and the Social Order
5 Basic Relationships:
Ruler & Subject
Father & Son
Husband & Wife
Older Brother & Younger Brother
Friend & Friend

6. Chinese Ethical Systems
Daoism
The natural order is more important than the social order
A universal force guides all things
Human beings should live simply and in harmony with nature
Legalism
A highly efficient and powerful government is the key to social order
Punishments are useful to maintain social order
Thinkers and their ideas should be strictly controlled by the government

7. The Qin Dynasty

8. Shi Huangdi First Emperor
Used Legalism because he wanted to control ideas so he could have unlimited power
Murdered Confucius thinkers
Built Great Wall
Terra Cotta Statues guarded his tomb

9. Social Advances under Shi Huangdi
Highway of 4,000 miles of roads
Set standards for writing, currency, and weights and measurements
Standards for vehicle wheel axels so wheels could fit in ruts on roads

10. Fall of Shi Huangdi
Over worked the people on the Great Wall and his tomb
Very Paranoid of assassination attempts
Apparently died from mercury pills
Peasants rebelled just two years after 2nd Emperor took power
Began the Han Dynasty

11. The Qin and Han Dynasties
Roundtable

12. Roundtable Guidelines
When it is your turn to read your answer, r-e-a-d s-l-o-w-l-y! You may have to repeat your answer.
Spell out names.
If you are not reading, YOU ARE LISTENING! You will be sent to Siberia if you cannot follow this rule.
No rude interruptions.

13. The Han Dynasty

14. Liu Bang

15. Empress Lu

16. Wudi “The Martial Emperor”

17. Fall of the Han First Han was overthrown by Wang Mang
Wang Mang was assassinated
New Han Dynasty started by member of old imperial family
Social, political, and economic weaknesses of the 2nd Han led to downfall
Disintegrated into 3 rival kingdoms

18. Constructive Response Questions
Looking at China’s cycle of dynasties, using specific examples, how have the Chinese failed to learn from the mistakes made in the past?
Using specific examples to back up your opinion, which Chinese dynasty was most successful as a ruling dynasty?