Centralizing Power: Administrative Command and Legalist Rule

Unification and Empire: The Qin and Han Dynasties

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Analyze Qin policies that abolished feudal aristocracy, seized private lands, and divided China into commanderies governed by appointed officials.

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Unification and Empire: The Qin and Han Dynasties

6th Grade · Social Studies · US-MA-SS

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Examine Qin Shi Huang's unification of China, massive state infrastructure, the Terracotta Army, and the Han golden age of civil service and trade.

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7.T2b.2.cMassachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

the First Emperor’s unification of China in the short Qin Dynasty (221–206 BCE) by subduing warring factions, seizing land, centralizing government, imposing strict rules, and creating, with the use of slave labor, large state building projects for irrigation, transportation, and defense (e.g., the Great Wall) and his own tomb with life-size terracotta warriors