Qin Dynasty

Daily people life in Qin Dynasty

Men

Farmers and peasants

Their life is simple and tired

Work hard for money everyday

plow their land

clean the crops

sell the crops

Merchants and Nobles

Their life is way easier than farmers

They just watched farmers or others work, and made sure nobody died.

Create their own business

pharmacy

Merchandise store

Food store

Women

Daily life

stay at home

Take care for children

Do household chores

convention

Marriage

Women didn't have any choice in marriage.

Women will marry a random man decide by their family.

looks

feet

When girls became women, they needed to decrease their feet size.

They think ismall feet is beautiful.

Clothing

commoner for poor

gorgeous dress for rich

Introduction of Qin Dynasty

Things we know

Capital City

Xianyang

It is located in modern-day Shaanxi province, north of the Zhou Dynasty territory.

Qin Dynasty end after Qin Shi Huang died.

Qin Dynasty only exist for around 15 years

Qin Dynasty is the first dynasty of tChina

lasting from 221 to 206 BC

Shang Yang

He is a vigorous reformer

He reformed the social order of Qin society and he created a Chinese nation which is a large and complex bureaucratic state.

Ying Zheng(Qin Shi Huang)

Great Wall of China

The Great wall has over 4,000 miles of road and one superhighway.

Qin Shi Huang made 300,000 workers to build the great wall of China.

Meng Tian was the worker's leader.

Qin Shi Huang means the first emperor to start Qin Dynasty.

Qin Shihuang worked quickly to unify his conquered people on a vast territory.

There are many different cultures and languages, but Qin Shi Huang unite and simplified those thing.

He standardizate non-alphabetic written script across all of China.

Death of QIn Shi Huang

Unknown reason

It is said that he died by taking poison

Tomb of Qin Shi Huang

Qin Shi Huang sent 700,000 workers to create an underground tomb.

terracotta warriors

He created around 8,000 terracotta warriors and 600 terracotta horses, plus chariots, stables and other artifacts.

Underground tomb

temples, huge chambers and halls, administrative buildings, bronze sculptures, animal burial grounds, a replica of the imperial armory, terracotta statues of acrobats and government officials, a fish pond and a river.

Technology in Qin Dynasty

Bronze coins

He cast bronze models for measurements, and through his transaction, bronze coins were created for payments.

Ge

It is a weapon

It use to cut of enemy's horses leg

Great wall

It has a complex system for transportation

The Great wall has over 4,000 miles of road and one superhighway.

It ran for about 500 miles along the Ziwu Mountain range

Systems of measurement

Qin Shi Huang create many different measurement units

For example chi, qun and ke etc.

Tools for measurement

balance scale

Bronze Measuring Instrument