HIST 107 Lecture 7: Hist 107 - 7th class
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Adopt legalism, and centralize their state to bureaucratic. They organize this population into a large army, and organize all the little chiefdoms into their country advantage to conquer the frontier. Advantages of backwardness: they were on the edge which gave them an. Huang di-illustrious divine one (what they called the emperor) The han dislike legalism though so they adopt confucianism. Qin were good at conquering, but couldn"t meet augustan threshold. And the han say they aren"t legalist but they kinda are with a confucian twist. Why does the chinese empire continue to b unified. Natural borders (ocean, deserts, mountains) makes a perfect size for an empire. The steppe riding nomads are always causing problems, they tried a lot of ways, none of them rly work (wall, pay them off, etc) Bc of alexander the great mediterranean is split up/fighting. Consuls primary job is to fight wars, but it was hard to control civil wars, and romans fight among themselves.
