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Civilization/Nation/Group______Han Dynasty______

Time Period______400 years after Qin dynasty______

E / Expanded Chinese territory by pushing into Korea, Indochina, and central Asia.
Population of China grew even larger once more.
Classical China contained the largest structure of government during that certain time period.
S / Expansion gave the Chinese direct access to India for trade and the Mediterranean to trade with the Romans. Also it gave contact with the Parthian Empire in the middle east which is how trade with the Romans was possible.
P / Han rulers continued to have control much like the centralized administration of the Qin Dynasty, but was not as cruel and didn’t punish anyone like Shi Huangdi.
Ruler Wu Ti (140-87 B.C.E) wanted and established peace throughout the continent of Asia.
Differed from Qin because they rather have the powers of bureaucracy then central authority. .By the end of Han dynasty China had about 130000 bureaucrats, representing 0.2% of population. Emperor had limited power because of bureaucracy.
I / Ruler from the Han Dynasty realized it wasn’t about strict authority but by doing what they must to establish and prosperity to all.
Scholar bureaucrats were widely respected of their learning and often their noble birth.
R / Confucianism was accepted by all emperors, and was respected and expected of everyone to follow it. Some worshiped him as a God.
I / Quality of Han declined after two centuries because central control weakened and had invasions from central Asia. These people were referred to as the Huns.
Freedom of making into Bureaucracy whether you were upper class, or lower it didn’t matter, but the majority and preferences were for the upper class.
T / The Chinese were the most tightly governed people in any large society in the world.