Test—make known indian vs chineese term
China
- Early china
- Qin dinasy
- Harsh on takes
- People rebelled
- Xiang yu and liu bang both peoples emerged out of the fighting
- Qin dinasy
- Han dynasty
- Liu bang won and declared himself the emperor of the han dynasty
- Ruled china for more than 400 years
- Rule was broken up into 2 parts
- Because they lost some control for a small time
- Very influential even today
- Bangs steps to unified china
- First goal was to destroy the rival kings power
- Created a centeralized government
- Central athuroty controls running of the state
- Also lowered taxes and softened punishments
- When bang died
- Son became emperor, but not really
- Real ruler was sons mother, lu
- When lu died thepeople that had supported bang, they killed lu’s supporters
- Wudi
- After 30 to 40 years of turmol an bad leadership, bangs great grandson took control of the hans and his name was wudi
- Known as the martial emperor because of his idea of expanding china through war
- First set of people he had to deal with were the xiongnu
- Xiongnu
- Fierce nomads known for the deadly archery from horseback
- Usually attacked chinas farms and would take people hostage
- Early han emperors would try to appease them with gifts
- Had other ideas and sent 100,000 men to kill them
- Hierarchy
- Emperor
- King, governer
- State officials nobels and scholars
- Pesants
- Artisans merchants
- Soldiers
- Slaves
- Han technology
- Paper in 105 ad before this books were written in silk
- Silk is expensive
- Allowed more people to get an education
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