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Standardization Under the Qin: Script, Currency, and Measurements
Describe how Qin standardized small seal Chinese characters, round copper coins, weights, measures, and cart axle widths.
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Unification and Empire: The Qin and Han Dynasties
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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 Gradethe 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
7.T2b.2.dMassachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th Gradethe Chinese ideographic writing system (characters, which are symbols for concepts/ideas) and how it differs from an alphabetic writing system