Transcript Qin Shi Huang Di

Qin Shi Huang Di
1st Emperor of China
How do you unify a whole
nation?
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Connect
Standardize
From
To
Connecting China Allowed
Shi HuangDi to easily…
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Collect taxes
Send armies to villages to stop
rebellions
Send important messages or laws to
everyone
From
Connecticut
New Jersey
Maryland
To
Standardizing
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Money
Cart axels
Weights a measures
Law Code
Writing Systems
Thoughts (tried)
Censorship
How do you get everyone
to think like you?
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Censorship
Legalism
How would you rate Qin Shi
Huang Di as a ruler on a
scale of 1-10?
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10 being the best
1 being awful
Why did the Qin dynasty not
last as long as Shi Huang Di
had predicted?
Quote from the Han dynasty
“The King of Qin, with his arches long
eyes, puffed out chest like a hawk and a
voice of a jackal is a man of scant mercy
who has the heart of a tiger or wolf.
When he is in difficulty he readily humbles
himself before others, but when he has
gotten his way, he thinks nothing of eating
others alive…if the King of Qin should
ever get his way with the world, then the
whole world will end up his prisoner.”
(Qian: 1993:38-39)
Quote from Qin dynasty
adviser
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“The ruler alone should possess all the
power, wielding it like lightning and
thunder.” (Han Fei-tzu)
What are the two different
perspectives from the last two
quotes?