Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each trait: characteristic of the Qin or of the Han?
Groups: Qin · Han
- Standardized script, coin, and axle width
- Burned books and buried scholars
- Lasted roughly four centuries
- Chose officials by learning and virtue
- Made peace with Confucianism as state ideology
- Ruled by pure Legalist rewards and punishments
Hints
- One relied on codified law and harsh enforcement.
- The other wrapped the same machinery in an ethical philosophy.
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Qin: Ruled by pure Legalist rewards and punishments, Burned books and buried scholars, Standardized script, coin, and axle width
Han: Chose officials by learning and virtue, Made peace with Confucianism as state ideology, Lasted roughly four centuries
Why
The Qin built the body and the Han gave it a survivable mind. Every later dynasty inherited both halves of the settlement.
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