quin dynasty were very harsh on taxes labor quotas and strict punishments, the people of the quin dynasty rebelled and a war of rival kings started throughout all of china, two powerful people emerged.. Xizng Yu and Liu Bang.
Han dynasty- these 2 leaders ended up hating each other and fought their last battle in 202bc liubang won and declared himself the first emperor of the han dynasty, the han dynasty ruled china for more thean 400 years however their rule was broken up into 2parts becuse there was a time where they lost power for a short period of time, very influential even today
bangs steps to unifiy china-first he wanted to destroy the rival kings power, he was going to do this by establishing chentralized government, this is where the central authority controls the running of the state, he also lowerd taxes and softened the harsh legan punishmenty of the people
empress Lu- when bang died his son became emperor but not really, the real ruler was the sons mother one of bangs wifes, when :u died the people that supported bang were upset ad they excuted the people who lu had put into power
wudi- after 30 yrs of turmoil and poor leadership bangs great grandson took control of the hans and his name was Wudi, he is know throughout history as the marital emperor because his idea of expanding china was through war the first set of people that he had to deal with were the xiongnu the xiongnu people were insane nomands and were deadly with bows and horseback, usually attacked chinas farms and would take people ostage and steal goods, early han emperors would try to send them goods so they would stop, wudi sent 100,000 men to kill the xiongnu
leaders
1.emperor 2.kings 3.state officals nobles and scholars 4.peasants 5.merchants 6.soliders 7.slaves
the hans invented paper in 105ad before it was written on silk and carvings on wood and allowed more people to get a education
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