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Han Dynasty

Published on Nov 21, 2015

by andrea a.

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1.

THE BEGINNING

  • Was the Founder
  • Han originated from the landscape
2.

HAN WUDI

  • Wadi established an imperial university to prepare men for gov service.
  • The imperial university took Confucianism as the basis for its curriculum.
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3.

HAN WUDI

  • His foreign policy was based on appeasing the fierce nomadic Xiongnu
  • (Hsiung-nu) in the north through Hequing treaties whereby Han
  • regularly gave Xiongnu large quantities of silk and food in return for
  • in return for peace. Appeasement, however, did not end Xiongnu
  • raids
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4.

LAND AND REFORM

  • Large landowners established private armies to protect
  • crops. However small landowners were too poor to afford
  • a private army so many raided
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5.

LAND & REFORM

  • Wang realized the biggest threat to security was the excessive power of the
  • landowners. To combat this, he claimed all and the states and distributed it
  • among peasants, forbidding sale & purchase.
  • The reform never succeeded due to the Landowners resisting and
  • no one placing the reform in place

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