qin and han dynasty Flashcards
important wars and meetings and stuff (13 cards)
who was qi huang di?
he was a emperor who ended internal battles between warring states and drove out the nomadic envadors and had 460 critics and Confucianists killed. and he burned book with ideas he didnt like
what did qi huang di do to link china?
he built highways and irrigation projects. He forced
peasants to work on these projects and set high taxes to pay for them.
He also set government standards for weights, measures, coins, and
writing,
how was the great wall built?and who built it?
shi huang di built it by forcing peasants (thousands of them) to work on it and they resented because of the desathes it caused
terra cotta army,elaborate
the terra citta army was built by shi huang di to be buried in his tomb
how did the qin dynasty end?
by shi huang di dying and building terra cotta in his tomb
who was lui bang?
the first emperor of the han dynasty
what did lui bang do?
he lowered taxes and he made peasants work only a month a year and made a bureaucracy government and he was paying attention to peoples skills and made roads canals and irrigation
lui bangs widow,empress lu,elaborte?
empress lu was msart and ruled for her uoung som whom she outlived an kept putting infants o te throne so she could rule behind or for them,when she died the people loyal to lui bang executed her family
who was wudi?
a desendant of lui bang and ruler of the hand dynasty at the tiem and was called the martial emperor because he used war to expand china
what did wudi do?
he chaesd out the nomadic invadors and he grew china
how did they unify china(han dynasty)
they encouraged people to assimilate(adopt chineese culture)and to do this chinese farmers married conquered people and they made schools to teach Confucianism.
what herdships did the han face?
famine,floods,rebelions and economic problems
