POST COLD WAR WORLD
RISE OF CHINA
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single monetary system
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system of roads
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hired censorates
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implemented Confucianism
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Detailed explanation-1: -Qin Shi Huang standardized writing, a crucial factor in the overcoming of cultural barriers between provinces, and unifying the empire. He also standardized systems of currency, weights, and measures, and conducted a census of his people. He established elaborate postal and irrigation systems, and built great highways.
Detailed explanation-2: -Confucianism was rejected by the Qin Dynasty because it was critical of Qin policy. The first emperor of the Qin Dynasty, Shi Huangdi (r. 221-210 BCE), established a repressive regime, completely at odds with Confucian ideals, and adopted Legalism as the state philosophy in order to strictly control the populace.
Detailed explanation-3: -Shi Huangdi established a common currency (money), a way to write and standard units of measure. He built roads, canals and the Great Wall of China. Shi Huangdi also built a terracotta (clay) army of 8, 000 soldiers, horses and chariots that he thought would protect him in the afterlife.
Detailed explanation-4: -This opens in a new window. Robert Oxnam :: Confucian teaching rests on three essential values: Filial piety, humaneness, and ritual.