The+Qin+-+Taxation

=Taxation under the Qin and China's culture today=

Premise:
Without the development of taxation in Qin Dinasty, the military strength in China would not exist.

A development of ancient China:
Before Shi Huangdi unified China, there were many small kingdoms in China. Each kingdom had it's own money.

The Qin dynasty, after unifying the territory later known as "China", took some contradictory measures to enhance the economical productivity of the empire. Money and weights and measures were standardized throughout all commanderies, leading to smoother transactions over longer distances.

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In order to keep out nomadic invaders. Shi Huangdi wanted a long wall along China's northern bordersthe Great Wall. He forced hundreds and thousands of peasants to work on this project and used the taxes that people payed to pay for them.

A hypothesis on the connections to modern Chinese society:
Shi Huangdi used the taxation to pay the peasants for building the Great Wall As you can see from the picture above, the Great Wall seperates China from the areas to it's north. It would be very hard for the nomadic invadors to fight against China. So the Great Wall protects China from be attacked. The creation of taxation contributed to the protection of China.

Examining evidence to support/refute this hypothesis:
In ancient, nomadic cavalry have excellent and mobility and strong attack ,but for The Great Wall's defense system, they can not fight against, so they construction of the northem peoples.

But only relying on The Great Wall's defense system, wars between China and other kingdoms or armies cannot be prevented. In 1550, the nomadic calvery called "Man" broke the Great Wall and went into China and attacked the Han army succesfully, Man took over the country and called the new dynasty Qing.

In the modern, the farmers used their hoe to tear down The Great Wall, since the bricks that were used to build the Great Wall was good for farming.

The farmers were all very normal people, unlike the soldiers, they haven't get trained before. The Great Wall can be destroyed so easily by hoes! How can it protect us?

Conclusion:
The creation of taxation contributed to the protection of China in very early times, but not in modern times.

Written by:
Natalie Ho, Marian Ho and Mikayla Xie

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