Ancient China was known as a successful society during the classical period for they were known greatly for the way they conducted themselves. Although China is still an ongoing society, its basic roots of success originated from the people that ran ancient China. China became greatly involved in governing their country around 551 BCE by a man named Confucius who created the belief system known as Confucianism. As time progressed and Confucianism died down a little, a man named Han Feizi created the belief system known as Legalism. Both belief systems had great intention on improving their country as a whole for they used different methods by doing so. Confucianism and Legalism impacted Ancient China greatly by focusing on essential areas such as practical lifestyles, religion and…
Both China and Mesopotamia started from the basics and started from absolutely nothing, they both created different ways to live but the process of doing it was very similar.…
The benefits of building the Great Wall of Ancient China does not outweigh the cost. Document C states that soliders were forced to leave their families. Due to the Chinese having to leave their families this shows that it does not outweigh the cost. According to document D soliders risked their lives for the protection of their country. Because of the soliders risking their lives their families will be…
“Fathers cover up for their sons, and sons cover up for their fathers…” Confucius on the Individual and State. Soon after the time of Confucius, two incredible civilizations rose: classical Athens in the West, and Han China in the East. In Classical Athens, around 470- 430 BCE, they had the first democratic government, the basis for the political systems of many powerful countries today. In the East, around 202 BCE- 220 CE the people of Han China accomplished great architectural projects such as the Great Wall of China, and the Terracotta Army. These two civilizations had two very different mindsets. In Athens they focused on what the individual could do to show loyalty to the city, while in China they focused more on loyalty to the family. Therefore, Han China had the better civilization because they held respect for their elders in higher regard than politics; they had the more efficient political system; and they respected nature and recognized that the Earth controlled them.…
did not need to provide protection for merchants as most trade came by land rather than by sea.…
There are many different and major civilizations in the world today. The first four major civilizations all begin in river valleys. These civilizations were China on the Huang He River, Mesopotamia on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, Egypt on the Nile River, and India on the Indus River. River valleys have always been a necessity to early growing civilizations. Amongst those four civilizations,…
- Ancient people had to appease the gods by making human or animal sacrifices in order to prevent natural disasters from happening.…
1. If the writing of the early Indus Valley civilization could be deciphered, what new information could they hope to learn?…
11. The later Mesopotamina people who built a large empire bsed on a powerful army with iron weapons and who made extensive use of terror were the Assyrians…
China went through many significant changes and continuities. Many ideas that involved society, religion, innovations and arts were many of the things that either got modified or remained the same. In Ancient China between (221 B.C.E) to (1271 C.E) China had. To begin with, during China's earliest stages, it began with the Han Dynasty, where agriculture was the main focus but as time went on, the dynasty came to a halt and a new ruler would step in. This ruler's name was Sui Wen-Ti and during the Sui Dynasty he brought China back together until it hit its downfall around 618 C.E, and the Tang Dynasty took the opportunity to rise. During this dynasty, China became more stable with a strong central government, economic revolution, agriculture…
In this essay I will describe the three main religions of Ancient China. Although they are not that much alike they do have some similarities. There were three major religions in ancient china, Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism.…
Qin: The Qin dynasty was right in the middle of the Era of Warring States, a time where China was trying to find their identity. The Qin Dynasty adopted Legalist thinking’s. Legalism was based off the idea that everything needs to run through the government and anyone that believed otherwise or didn’t follow the rules was badly punished. The king of Qin, who was latter named The First Emperor, was Shih Huang-Di. A huge accomplishment of the First Emperor was that in only nine years he captured the six largest states in China. Once he did this that was when centralization got under way. He divided the country into administrative units the remained the same well after his time. He also invented the first standard units of money. The writing system was standardized so effectively that it is almost the same now as it was back then. This was all constructed to make China unified. A problem that kept coming up was that from the north the Mongols were invading. This caused the Qin Dynasty to construct the first parts of the Great Wall of China. Shih Huang-Di also had his bad side, in Legalism if you didn’t follow what the government wanted you got in serious trouble. He got into doing a lot of torture and harsh treatment to people. He could not stand the people who supported Confucsism and because of that he ordered a Burning of the Books in attempt to get rid of Confucsism. Tang Dynasty: The Tang Dynasty was one of the most brilliant periods of Chinese history. The Tang took over after the Sui Dynasty that left China in a terrible place. That was the first problem the Tang had to address, the reconstruction of China. The Tangs first concern was to help out the peasant tenants because the landowners were making them pay way too much. A thing the Sui Dynasty had was the well field system and the Tang adopted that. This really helped the economy get back to where it needed to be. The Tang also recreated a bureaucracy on Confucianerit system. The wealthy people could…
Similar to the Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations Ancient China's fertile soil allowed for China to be an…
Ancient China. Part raised wasteland, part warring states. One man unifed it, but then the dynasty fell. Ancient China shifted dynasties like this a lot, but maintained a healthy trading system with other civilizations such as modern-day Pakistan. They also were the source of great art, such as Shi Huangdi’s tomb. In short, ancient China was a forefront in trading and art despite ever shifting ruling families.…
At the same time in the outside circle, while we were disccusing online, I learnt about the influenced of Chinese culture in they way that Confucius wrote his quotes. I think his ideas were reallu influenced by the Chinese culture, due to the way he talks about how he examined himself, in quote number nine, because maybe in other countries, such mine, you examine yourself by looking to your family, people who cares about you, not by asking if you have failed to be loyal in your work. I think in western cultures you are care more about what people who cares about you think you are, while in the asian culture, I think, you care more about how much you learnt or how big you success have been. Maybe I am worng but I think his quotes were influenced, in a big part, by the Chinese culture.…