Since you did service for me and stayed loyal I am granting you this land.
The Qin Dynasty
Finally finished the wall now no intruders can come in.
When many wars started happening the Iron age developed. The iron age was when the Zhou dynasty started using a wide variety of iron tools to protect themselves and to fight off intruders.
The Qin Dynasty
My father has died so I will take over.
The Zhou Dynasty followed a system called the Feudal system. In this system if you stayed loyal during a service you did to the ruler you would be granted land.
The Han Dynasty
yes emperor we will obey completely.
You shall follow the teachings of confucianism and obey them completely
During the Qin Dynasty they had a ruler named Qin Shi Huang Di. He made a writing system, currency, weights and measures. He also decided to have a wall built so intruders would have a harder time intruding, yet this didn't work and intruders still managed to get it.
The Han Dynasty
We are ministers of the state.
We are clerks.
After Qin Shi Hang Di died he had his son take over as ruler. When his son took over the dynasty started falling apart. People started rebelling against him and then a war broke out between all the powerful families in Ancient China.
He shall not rule our dynasty will become weak
During the Han dynasty the people were strongly influenced by Confucianism. They believed that they should call the emperor ruler-father. They believed that they should be guided by parental respect for their elders.
When emperor Wudi ruled during the Han Dynasty he decided to have 12 levels that you could be. These levels ranged from clerks to ministers of state. These levels had specialized duties and certain functions were made to make sure individual officials didn't become too powerful.
