HISTORY
ANCIENT CHINA
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Shang
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Zhou
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Qin
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Detailed explanation-1: -Confucianism remains one of the most influential philosophies in China. During the Han Dynasty, emperor Wu Di (reigned 141–87 B.C.E.) made Confucianism the official state ideology.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Han established a large government bureaucracy operated by Confucian scholars. They gained their positions by taking difficult civil service examinations based on the Five Classics, the Analects, the Book of Mencius, and other works. For centuries, Confucianism went in and out of favor in China.
Detailed explanation-3: -Around 136 B.C.E., the Han Dynasty made Confucianism the state-sponsored religion and philosophy.
Detailed explanation-4: -However, despite establishing an autocratic and centralised state, Emperor Wu adopted the principles of Confucianism as the state philosophy and code of ethics for his empire and started a school to teach future administrators the Confucian classics.
Detailed explanation-5: -After the civil war that followed the death of Qin Shihuang in 210 B.C., China was reunited under the rule of the Han dynasty, which is divided into two major periods: the Western or Former Han (206 B.C.–9 A.D.) and the Eastern or Later Han (25–220 A.D.).