Transcript Unification of China

Unification of China
Confucius and the Social Order
• 5 Basic relationships
Ruler and subject
Father and son
Husband and wife
Older brother and younger brother
Friend and friend
o filial piety
o bureaucracy
Other Ethical Systems
• Laozi
Natural order
Dao De Jing (The Way of Virtue)
“the Way” guides all things
Daoism
alchemy, astronomy and medicine
• Legalists
Highly efficient and powerful government
Hanfeizi and Li Si were founders of Legalism
Rich rewards
Stressed punishments more than rewards
• I Ching
Solve ethical or practical problems
Throwing coins, interpreting results, reading oracle
or prediction
• Yin and Yang
Cold, dark, soft and mysterious
Warm, bright, hard and clear
Rhythm of the universe
• Qin Dynasty
Shi Huangdi
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Halted internal battles
Defeated invaders
Crushed political opposition
Relocated noble families
Murdered Confucius scholars
Established autocracy
Highway network
Standards for writing, law, currency and weights
Irrigation, trade, harsh taxes
• The Great Wall of China
Poor peasants worked for nothing
Made to protect its border
• The Han Dynasty Emerged