China+-+Qin+and+Han+Dynasties


 * 1. Why I should care?**

-**Dao- the king was expected to rule according to the proper "way", it was their duty to keep the gods pleased. -Mandate of Heaven - believed that heaven kept order in the universe through the Zhou King. Dao- proper way king was supposed to rule Silk Road- trading route through china Aristocracy-an upper class whose wealth is based on land and whose power is passed from one generation to another Pictographs-picture symbols or characters Regime's- government in power Mandate of Heaven-belief that Heaven, impersonal law of nature, kept order in the universe through the Zhou king. filial piety- refers to the duty members of the family to subordinate their needs and desires to those of the mal head of the family. Pictographs- picture symbols or characters that represent a object Ideographs- characters that combine two or more pictographs to represent an idea
 * 2. Key terms:


 * 3. Important topics:**

- The Hans were facing multiple invaders and to keep them from attacking they paid them. -In the Han Dynasty peasants later ended up poor causing them to rebel and helped lead to the end of the Han Dynasty. -The Han government fell because of natural disasters, financial problems, military problems, and because peasants rebelled. -The Han government were not making the wealthy people pay taxes. -Then the Han government disintegrated. China becomes divided into several large competing regional kingdoms. -In 220 A.D. A general seized control but was unable to maintain his power. China again plunged into civil war, but made worse by migrating nomadic people from Central Asia. -The next great dynasty would not arise for 400 years.
 * **//Decline of the Han Dynasty//**

- Literature flourished with the invention of paper. - In literature Sima Qian contributed to the Chinese historiography by writing the Book of History. - It was the first chronicle of Chinese History (from Huangdi to Emperor Wu). - The earliest mathematical works were created in the Western Han Dynasty, and astronomy was recorded in great detail including mankind's first record of the solar system. -Western Hans was one of the most powerful countries in the world, and its culture reached an unparalleled level. -The Chinese writing consisted of pictographs and ideographs.
 * **//Culture//**

- In art, the techniques were so superb, that they are compared to today's artwork. - From excavated sites, Art had cultural relics that continued to be unearthed that revealed amazing crafts of this period. - Art flourished with the invention of loom, and the invention of porcelain. The invention of paper had also helped art flourish.
 * **//Arts//**

-Liu Bang was the first emperor of the Han Dynasty who had the ideals of learned Confucians. -Quin Shihuangdi- ruler of the Qin dynasty, came to throne when he was 13, and he defeated the last of his rivals and founded a new dynasty, with himself as an emperor. -Emperor Wu (Liu Che)- ruled from 141-87 BC, which was the Han Dynasty's most powerful and prosperous period. He dispatched two generals Wei Qing and Huo Qubing to fight against the invasion of the Han. Through him, Confucianism was made to be the thought of the government. -Confuscius- known as the first teacher he was born in 551 BC being upset with the violence and moral decay he set out to teach the people his ideas
 * 4. Key actors:**

- 202 BC- 220 AD Han Dynasty - 760 AD Silk Road declined
 * 5. Timeline:**