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Unification and Empire: The Qin and Han Dynasties

6th Grade · Social Studies · US-MA-SS

11 lessons

Goal

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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  1. Qin Shi Huang and the Unification of Warring StatesUp next
  2. Centralizing Power: Administrative Command and Legalist RuleNot started yet
  3. Standardization Under the Qin: Script, Currency, and MeasurementsNot started yet
  4. Massive State Building Projects and Forced Labor Under QinYou are here
  5. Connecting the Great Wall: Defense and BordersNot started yet
  6. The Terracotta Army and the First Emperor's TombNot started yet
  7. The Fall of the Qin Dynasty and the Rise of HanNot started yet
  8. Emperor Wu and the Expansion of the Han EmpireNot started yet
  9. The Confucian Civil Service System and Imperial AcademyNot started yet
  10. Scientific and Technological Inventions of the Han EraNot started yet
  11. Early Gunpowder and Chemical Experimentation in Ancient ChinaNot started yet
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Learning standards covered

us-ma7.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