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Unification of China

Unification of China. Chapter 4 section 4. Key Terms. Confucius Filial piety Bureaucracy Daoism Legalism. I Ching Yin and yang Gin Dynasty Shi Huangdi Autocracy. Confucius and Social Order. China’s most influential scholar Zhou Dynasty Desire to restore order

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Unification of China

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  1. Unification of China Chapter 4 section 4

  2. Key Terms • Confucius • Filial piety • Bureaucracy • Daoism • Legalism • I Ching • Yin and yang • Gin Dynasty • Shi Huangdi • Autocracy

  3. Confucius and Social Order • China’s most influential scholar • Zhou Dynasty • Desire to restore order • Led a scholarly life

  4. Confucius and the Social Order • Five relationships • 1 ruler and subject • 2 father and son • 3 husband and wife • 4 older brother and younger brother • 5 friend and friend • Code of conduct regulated relationships • Loyal and law abiding

  5. Confucius and the Social Order • 3 relationships based on family • Filial piety-respect for parents and ancestors • Devoting ones self to their parents and ancestors • Honoring their memories after death

  6. Confucius and the Social Order • Govern wisely • Confucius overwhelmed people • With kindness • Courtesy • Crime vanished overnight • Analects-Confucius words in a book

  7. Confucius Ideas About Government • Education • From humbly born to gentleman • Bureaucracy-a trained civil service who ran the government • Confucianism- never a religion • Foundation of government and order

  8. Other Ethical Systems • Daoists- natural order involves relationships with all living things • Laozi- founder • Doa- means the way • Only humans fail to follow • Argue about right and wrong • Daoism-philosophy of Laozi

  9. Legalists Urge Harsh Rule • Legalism founders- Hanfeizi and Li Si • Highly efficient and powerful government is the way • Ruler should provide rich rewards for good • Harsh punishment for bad

  10. Legalists Urge Harsh Rule • Control both ideas and actions • Burn books that criticizezcriticisms • Prince to rule, people to obey

  11. The Qin Dynasty Unifies China • Qin Dynasty-3rd century BC • 221 BC • Shi Huangdi-first emperor began reign • Fought invaders doubled China’s size • Crushed political opposition

  12. The Qin Dynasty Unifies China • Commanded all noble families to live in the capitol • Uprooted 120,000 families • Seized their land • Made 36 administrative district • Li Su murdered Confucian scholars

  13. The Qin Dynasty Unifies China • Practical books • About medicine • Farming saved • Autocracy-a government who has unlimited power and uses it in an arbitrary manner

  14. Program of Separation • Built 4000 miles of roads • Set standards for • Writing • Law • Currency • Weights and measures • Irrigation increased • Trade blossomed

  15. A Program of Centraliztion • Harsh taxes • Repressive government • Unpopular • Shi Huangdi – unification expense freedom

  16. Great Wall of China • Scholars and the poor hated Shi Huangdi • Forced to work on defensive wall • Hundreds of thousands to build • Work on the wall or die • Harsh coonditions

  17. The Fall of the Qin • Second Qin Emperor • Peasants rebelled • Marched to capitol 202 BC • Han Dynasty started • One of the longest

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