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The Confucian Civil Service System and Imperial Academy
Explain how the Han Dynasty established Confucianism as the state ideology and created an Imperial Academy to train civil officials.
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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.2Massachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th GradeDescribe important economic, political, and religious developments in early Chinese history and evaluate the ways in which they are similar to or different from the characteristics of societies in other regions of the world.
7.T2b.2.bMassachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th Gradethe teachings of Confucius (551–479 BCE), including writings on ethics and good government, codes of proper conduct, and relationships between parent and child, friend and friend, husband and wife, and subject and ruler and the philosophy/religion of Taoism, emphasizing harmony of humanity and nature