History 1601E Lecture Notes - Xiang Yu, Emperor Gaozu Of Han, Han Dynasty

• School: Western University
• Department: History
• Course: History 1601E
• Professor: Carl Young

Document Summary

Standardisation : legalism stressed uniformity, everyone has to be the same, policies have to be the same, standardisation of weights and measures, coinage, writing, and transportation. They banned all other currencies, melted them down for use somewhere else, and installed the use of their coinage which was the round one with the square hole in the middle. In addition, all the other variation of characters for writing was eliminated and the qin standardized their one writing style to all the others: gave cohesion to the new empire and provided the basis of traditional culture. Repression : qin administration abhorred possibilities of any alternate centres of power, most infamous policy was the burning of all non-legalist philosophical and historical books in. 213 bce: resisting scholars were banished or executed. October 5th, 2010: qin emperor obsessed with secrecy, personal longevity, and endless expansion of power.