Unification of China

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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
• filial piety
• bureaucracy

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• Other Ethical Systems
• Laozi
• Natural order
• Dao De Jing (The Way of Virtue)
• the Way guides all things
• Daoism
• alchemy, astronomy and medicine

3

• 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

4

• Qin Dynasty
• Shi Huangdi
• 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

5

• The Great Wall of China
• Poor peasants worked for nothing
• Made to protect its border
• The Han Dynasty Emerged