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AP World History Ch 2 Reading Study Guide #2 P. 46-59
1. Why were the Qin-Han governmental systems so successful for so long? Pg.46
2. How were Shi Huangdi’s uniform law and taxation systems beneficial to the stability of China?
3. How did Han rulers further enhance the power of the imperial government?
4. How did the bureaucracy further stabilize the imperial government?
(Read Visualizing the Past: Capital Designs and Patterns of Political Power. Pg. 47)
5. Using the picture which social groups were the most powerful politically in each society?
6. Which society had the strictest political government?
7. In what two industries was the imperial government directly involved?
8. How did the government use the annual physical labor required of male peasants?
9. Why do you think the Han government chose to actively promote Confucian philosophy? Pg.48
10. Briefly describe the major ideas of Confucian thought.
11. What were the Analects?
12. Briefly describe the ideas of Legalism.
(Read Document: Teachings of the Rival Chinese Schools. Pg. 50)
13. Describe the difference between the Confucian passages and the Daoist passages.
14. Briefly describe the ideas of Daoism
15. Why could Daoism (and later Buddhism) and Confucianism co-exist?
16. What were The 5 Five Classics?
15. Describe Classical Chinese art.
(Read Thinking Historically: Women in Patriarchal Societies. Pg. 52-53)
16. Why were upper-class women often considered more inferior to men than lower-class women?
17. What was the focus of science and scientific research in China?
18. Briefly describe the Chinese social class structure.
19. Why were merchants considered less respectable than peasants and bureaucrats?
20. What improvements to agriculture developed under the Han?
20. Even though Classical China was agrarian, what other industries developed in this era?
21. How did the Chinese view their kingdom in comparison with the rest of the world?
22. What important new religion came to China from India beginning during the Han decline?
23. What was the function of and activity along the “Silk Road”? Pg.57
Borrowed From Mr. Walker
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