China Lesson 1 Shang Zhou Qin Han

on the bottom of social classes were

• merchants

• farmers

• nobles

• craft people

9The right order of social classes

• emperor, nobles, scholars

  peasants

  artisans

  merchants

• emperor, nobles, scholars

  merchants

  artisans

  peasants

• emperor, nobles, scholars

  artisans

  peasants

  merchants

1st dynasty

• Shang

• Zhou

Mandate of Heavean

• Shang

• Zhou

Invented writing

• Shang

• Zhou

• Qin

• Han

Shi Huangdi

• Han

• Qin

• Zhou

• Shang

Embraced confucianism

• Han

• Zhou

Shi Huangdi

• terracota army

• unified China

  Great Wall

• Unified writing and money

• followed Confucianism

• moved nobles to capital to control them

Chang Jiang and Huang He

• rivers

• mountains

• deserts

Laozi founded

• Daoism

• Buddhism

• Confucianism