PRESENTATION OUTLINE
The beginning
Liu Bang was the winner in the civil wars that followed the collapse of the first Imperial dynasty in China, the Qin Dynasty, and was the founder of the Han Dynasty. This dynasty ruled with for four centuries. Liu Bang was one of only two peasants who rose to become Emperor.
Liu Bang followed Chinese custom in naming his dynasty after his native district,
Hanzhong. It was a fief southwest of Shaanxi, China. This area occupied a historically significant valley in the mountains between the Xi'an area.
Han Wudi
This emperor established a national educational system for his officials and also encouraged reading of books for education.
Han Wudi's foreign policy and wars resulted in Chinese expansion. They basically helped trade between the Eurasian world and China. Its foreign policy was based on appeasing the fierce nomadic Xiongnu.
Land and reform
In the early Han period, rural peasant farmers were largely self-sufficient, but they began to rely more heavily upon commercial exchanges with the wealthy landowners of large agricultural estates. Many peasants fell into debt and were forced to become either hired laborers or rent-paying tenants of the land-owning classes.
Wong mon created a tax reform, an economic reform, and his most notable was his land reform re distributing land across China.
