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| 218241328 | Han | imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy | 0 | |
| 218241329 | Han Feizi | founder of Legalism | 1 | |
| 218241330 | Han Wudi | a Chinese emperor; after Zhang Qian came back from his expedition, Zhang suggests trade relations between China and Bactria through India, and Han thought that was a fantabulous idea; China imposed political and military control over vast territories and promoted trade | 2 | |
| 218241331 | Legalism | In China, a political philosophy that emphasized the unruliness of human nature and justified state coercion and control. The Qin ruling class invoked it to validate the authoritarian nature of their regime. (p.52) | 3 | |
| 218241332 | Liu Bang | helped overthrow Qin dynasty, 1st emperor of the Han dynasty, was born a peasant and worked way up to emperor | 4 | |
| 218241333 | Maodun | The most successful leader of the Xiongnu. He brought strict military discipline. | 5 | |
| 218241334 | Qin | Dynasty that came to power in China in 221 B.C. under which the first true empire of China was created | 6 | |
| 218241335 | Qin Shihuangdi | Ruler of China who united China for the first time. He built road and canals and began the Great Wall of China. He also imposed a standard system of laws, money, weights, and writing. | 7 | |
| 218241336 | terra cotta warriors | a clay army set up to guard shi huangdi's tomb in the afterlife | 8 | |
| 218241337 | book burning | The practice of destroying often ceremoniously books or other written materials. | 9 | |
| 218241338 | Shang Yang | Most notable legalist and wrote the book of Lord Shang | 10 | |
| 218241339 | Sima Qian | chinese scholer,astronomer,and historian; wrote the most important historyof ancient china | 11 | |
| 218241340 | Wang Mang | ruled for a child emporer then takes over (9 AD - 23 AD) sets up graineries for the poor, new money, because of land reforms people didn't like him; 11AD = bad flood (he was blamed); he was assasinated | 12 | |
| 218241341 | Xiongnu | A confederation of nomadic peoples living beyond the northwest frontier of ancient China. Chinese rulers tried a variety of defenses and stratagems to ward off these 'barbarians,' as they called them, and dispersed them in 1st Century. (168) | 13 | |
| 218241342 | Yellow Turban Uprising | Large revolt throughout China during the Han dynasty led by desperate peasants wearing yellow turbans. This uprising tested the resilience of the Han state during the late second century CE. It weakened the Han state during the second and third centuries CE. Leads to fall of Han Dynasty | 14 | |
| 218241343 | The Martial Emperor | Han Wudi | 15 | |
| 218241344 | Former Han | 1st and strongest period of Han rule, unified China | 16 | |
| 218241345 | Later Han | 2nd, weaker period of Han, never regained same strength, tax corruption and frequent revolts | 17 | |
| 218241346 | sinicization | The adoption and absorption by foreign people of Chinese language, customs and culture. | 18 |
