Chinese Unification Dbq

Desperate times call for desperate measures, sometimes you just have to massacre everyone that gets in the way in forming a unified state. Unification was achieved in China through warfare and violence, because of this people during this period devised technology that was soon beneficial for forming a unified state. Since warfare increased to a greater scale it came to a point where the war wasn’t just among the aristocrats but now involved a battle among the masses, a larger number of troops were involved; so they made use of horses, they made chariots, learned archery, developed the crossbow and studied horseback-riding which greatly developed the mode of transportation and communication that was needed in the unification of the state. Wars also caused the states to build walls to daunt foreign forces (Rossabi, 2014).

4.d It was when Yue conquered Wu that initiated the deterioration of the Warring States period. After 250 years of warfare that plagued the Chinese civilization, Qin began a relentless quest for the

unification of China. He destroyed the last remnants of the Zhou kingdom and in the course of three decades destroyed one state after another. In the process, of course a lot of lives were sacrificed; and a lot of incentives were given to military strategists and to any warrior groups that could bolster the power of the state (Rossabi, 2014).

4.e The people of China experienced a lot of changes under the new system of administration.

Social classes became more flexible, competence rather than virtue by birth determined your fate in the social system. Better irrigation systems and agricultural techniques increased food production, repair and construction of roads made trading much easier, peace prevailed and the merchant class prospered during these times, the arrival of camels and donkeys also hastened economic vitality since it also facilitated trading, transport and commerce. The disadvantages of the new system, however, were mostly felt by the peasants. Even though they were granted private ownership of the land the government imposed heavy taxes and great rates of interests that were set by money lenders, which eventually led to peasants selling their land to local landlords; so during those times peasants tilled the land that they didn’t own and lived only as tenants (Rossabi,

2014).

4.f Even the slightest probability of an event to take place, is still a possibility. Yes, there’s still hope that the Philippines can be a united nation, I feel that more and more Filipinos are coming to their senses and are now infuriated of how the system in this country works. There are a lot of ways to unify this God-forsaken country, perhaps; a change in the form of government, an uprising from the people, a complete annihilation of corrupt government officials, a rigid inculcation of values and pound the truth on every Filipino’s head until they wake up to reality, we could also send everyone to different parts of the world to work or to live there until they realize what it really means to be a Filipino or we could just sit back until our culture’s near extinction and the government will be compelled to fund archaeological research throughout the country and make a nation-wide propaganda and establish a firm national identity.
There’s unity in diversity, we can all be different but can be united by a common goal, a common vision, that’s what this country lacks; having unclear vision we focus on things that don’t really matter and turn a blind eye on the root of the problems of the society. We’ve become too lax, we’ve become too comfortable with our condition that we settled for less, even though Filipinos were gifted with great skill and intelligence making us more than capable of overtaking any nation in this world, or is it just a government factor? If so, it’s just a matter of political will; and if I’m lucky I could see it during my lifetime, but that’s a pretty big if.