Classical+China

China

OVERVIEW Qin Dynasty - Great Wall of China - Qin Shihuangdi --> recentralization of feudal states --> attempted control of thought - patriarchal - Legalism - fell due to peasant revolt Han Dynasty - Wu Ti --> warrior emperor --> defeats Huns --> expands to central Asia - Silk Road - Buddhism - civil service exams - paper, sundials, calendars
 * Interaction between humans and the environment** - demography and disease, migration, patterns of settlement, technology

Silk Road - able to pass through Gobi Desert due to camels - overcome environment Han - paper, sundials, calendars - learning to control their environment through prediction of its behavior

**Development and Interaction of Cultures** – Religions, Belief systems, Science and technology, The arts and architecture Qin Legalism - sect of Confucianism that believed in the innate evil of human beings and promoted a centralized, heavy-handed government first emperor Qin Shihuangdi - attempted to control thought; burned books he believed contained dissent from the empires (and the emperor's) values complete the Great Wall of China Han Confucianism Silk Road - Han - spread of culture and Buddhist ideas Han paper - record-keeping for later civilizations

**State-building, Expansion, and Conflict** – Political structures and forms of governance, Empires, Nations and nationalism, Revolts and revolutions, Regional, trans-regional, and global structures and organizations Qin Legalism - strong, harsh central government - reunites former Zhou feudal states repressive nature leads to peasant revolt and ultimately the fall of the Qin Han Warrior Emperor Wu Ti defeats the Huns, expanding China into central Asia Confucian civil service exams - talent gives you high status, not birth - highly skilled bureaucracy

**Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems** – Agricultural and pastoral production, Trade and commerce, Labor systems, Industrialization, Capitalism and socialism

Qin - peasants = labor, which led to unrest and revolt Han - Silk Road - global trade network - spread of culture and ideas

**Development and Transformation of Social Structures** – Gender roles and relations, Family and kinship, Racial and ethnic constructions, Social and economic classes

Qin - patriarchal; huge, repressed lower class of peasant laborers Han - civil service exams meant more chance of rising to high status, though typically only the wealthy could afford to prepare for the exams