Han Emperors in China
Early China
- The Qin Dynasty were very harsh on taxes labor quotas, and strick punishments
- The people of the Quin Dynasaty rebelled and a war of rival kings started throughout all of china
- Two powerful people emerged: Xiang Yu and liu Bang
The Han Dynasty
- These two leaders ended up hating each other and fought their last battle in 202 B.C- Liu Bang won and declared himsefl the first emperor of the Han dynasty
- The Han Dynasty ruled China for more than 400 years. However their rule was broken up into 2 parts because there was a time were they lost their power for a short period of time
- Very influential even today people from China often refer themselves as People of the Han
Bang's steps to Unified China
- First goal was to destroy the rival Kings power
- He was going to do this by establishing Centralized Government
- This is where the central authority controls the running of the stae
- he also lowered taxes and softened the harsh legal punishments of the people
Empress LU
- When Bang died his son became emperor, but not really
- the real ruler was the son's mother. on the the wives ghout history of Bang
- When Lu died, the people that supported bang were upset, and they executed the people who Lu had put into power
Wudi
- After 30-40 years of turmoil and poor leadership, Bang's great grandson took control fo the Hans and his name was Wudi
- He is known throughout history as the Martial Emperor because his idea of expanding China was through war
- The first set of People that he had to dea with were the Xionguu
XIONGNU
- were fierce nomads known fo rtheir deadlly archery from horseback
- Usually attacked China's farms and woiuld take people hostage and steal goods
- Early Han emperors would try to send them gifts to stop but they usually did not quit
- Wudi had other ideas and sent out 100,000 men to fight them
Pyramid/ Hierachy
- Top Tier- Emperor
- 2nd tier-king, Governor
- 3rd tier- state officials,nobles, and scholars
- 4th tier- Peasants
- 5th tier-artisans, merchants
- 6th tier- soliders
- 7th tier- slaves
Han Technology
- Advancements included paper, Paper was invented in 105 AD Before this books were written in silk
- Silk is very expensive compared to paper
- so this allowed for many more people to get an education
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