China’s new Han rulers force the northern …
Years: 201BCE - 190BCE
China’s new Han rulers force the northern invaders to retire behind the Great Wall and reduce Korea to vassal status.
Liu Bang, now Emperor Gaozu of Han, dies in 195.
His successor builds on the Qin’s stable and highly centralized government and a bureaucracy recruited by examination, giving rise to a new class of gentry-officials.
The Confucianist Han government, though structured along Qin lines, is somewhat more sensitive to the welfare of the peasantry.
