David Z PERSIAN Chart: East Asia

Political

China is a region of various warring states and chaos until Qin Shihuangdi unites China in 221 BCE; Legalism is implemented under the Qin dynasty; the Han dynasty emerges following the end of the Qin dynasty in 206 BCE; Confucian beliefs are evident in the laws of the Han; China is ruled by an emperor with the mandate of heaven;

E Religious

Qin Shihuangdi Uniform system of weights, measures, and currency is employed under Qin; merchants/ traders were conomic looked down on during Qin rule; Confucianism is prominent as well as Daoism; Chinese cultural ideas focused on human rationality and the natural world; ancestor veneration;

Social Innovation Arts

Portrait of Confucius Legalism encourages farmers and soldiers while stemming merchants, aristocrats, scholars, and other classes that were seen as useless; filial piety is apparent; extremely patriarchal society; Written form of Chinese is developed under Qin; iron age technology; roads are developed; civil service exams are implemented in order to recruit government officials; Construction on the Great Wall of China begins under Qin; landscape painting is a popular art form, which was influenced by Daoism and often depicted scenes including mountains and water elements;

Near
geographic

China controls parts of northern Vietnam, Korea, and the steppes of Central Asia; large portions of the Yellow River and Yangzi River are under Chinese rule; roads are developed in the region;