The Han Dynasty

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The Han Dynasty
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The Government

• Bureaucracy
• Highly organized centralized government
• Civil Service Exam
• Scores determined who received positions in the
  government
• Exams based on Confucian philosophy
• No favoritism had to prove they were qualified

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Han Bureaucracy
http//libweb.uoregon.edu/ec/e-asia/read/qinhantit
.pdf
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Achievements

• Paper
• Wheel Barrow
• Compass
• Seismograph

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Achievements

• Acupuncture
• Inserting needles into certain points in the
  human body can alleviate pain
• Believed to restore health well being

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The Economy

• The Silk Road ? trade route that connected Xian
  China to Rome
• Chinese exported silk to rest of the world
• Sold the Government stored surplus grain, iron,
  salt
• surplus to raise income instead of raising taxes

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• http//www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/socialstd/res
  ources/han.html
• http//www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/chinahist/h
  an.html