ANT 101 Lecture 25: China
3 Dec 2016
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Walled cities, walled kingdoms: protection from nomads and from each other. Most eastern zhou states minted their own coins (different shapes, different kingdoms) 260 b. c. , ruler of qin defeated greatest rival zhao, killing 400,000. Armies numbered tens of thousands; cavalry and infantry. Imperial urbanism and the qin dynasty (221-206 b. c. ) Credited with unifying china under single empire. Great wall rammed earth or mud brick (covered > 3000 miles) Huge undertaking but incorporated segments of earlier walls. Five main roads led outward from capital to province. Standardized coins; standardized system of weights and measures. Most elaborate tomb discovered in china: 700,000 convicts to construct it large burial bound with chamber, booby-trapped with crossbows, microcosm of palace and capital, complete with rivers of mercury, earthly belongings carry over to afterlife. Four huge pits east of the tomb enclosure: Imperial urbanism and the han dynasty (206 b. c.
