Practice question · Put in order
Order the rise and reinvention of imperial China.
- The First Emperor unifies China and standardizes everything
- Qin adopts Legalism and out-organizes its rivals
- The Warring States fight for supremacy
- The Qin collapses under the weight of its own rigidity
- Officials come to be chosen by examination on the classics
- The Han keep the machine but adopt a Confucian face
Hints
- One dynasty built the empire, the next learned to hold it.
- The machinery was inherited; the presentation changed.
Show the answer
- The Warring States fight for supremacy
- Qin adopts Legalism and out-organizes its rivals
- The First Emperor unifies China and standardizes everything
- The Qin collapses under the weight of its own rigidity
- The Han keep the machine but adopt a Confucian face
- Officials come to be chosen by examination on the classics
Why
Qin built the empire and could not hold it; Han inherited the empire and learned to. The difference was not the machinery but the face it wore and the men it recruited.
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