Qin Shi Huang Di

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Qin Shi Huang Di

• 1st Emperor of China

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How do you unify a whole nation?

• Connect
• Standardize

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From
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To
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Connecting China Allowed Shi HuangDi to easily

• Collect taxes
• Send armies to villages to stop rebellions
• Send important messages or laws to everyone

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From
Connecticut
New Jersey
Maryland
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To
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Standardizing

• Money
• Cart axels
• Weights a measures
• Law Code
• Writing Systems
• Thoughts (tried)

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Censorship
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How do you get everyone to think like you?

• Censorship
• Legalism

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How would you rate Qin Shi Huang Di as a ruler on
a scale of 1-10?

• 10 being the best
• 1 being awful

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Why did the Qin dynasty not last as long as Shi
Huang Di had predicted?
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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 aliveif the King of Qin should
ever get his way with the world, then the whole
world will end up his prisoner. (Qian
199338-39)
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Quote from Qin dynasty adviser

• The ruler alone should possess all the power,
  wielding it like lightning and thunder. (Han
  Fei-tzu)

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What are the two different perspectives from the
last two quotes?