The Han Dynasty wanted a Legalist and a Confucius way of living. In a Legalist form of living, you would get rewards for doing something right, and punishment for doing something wrong, such as a hit by a paddle. The Han wants to expand China, the expectations for this expanding is that they want to take over Vietnam, Korea, and Asia. The Han will hopefully do much with this expansion, I've heard that they wanted to trade with Asia and build something that they call the "Silk Road", something about a road traveling from Asia to China to make trade easier.
The Han Dynasty made something called an encyclopedia; many were made. One of these encyclopedias is named, "Book of the Mountains and Seas" which gave us Chinese great detail of geography, animals and plants, and popular myths. Another of these encyclopedias was named, "Records of the Historian" (Shiji) by Sima Qian. In the future, we hope that historians will look at these books and learn about our past and our history. Sadly, there is plan of a rebellion by us, and some of us hope to end this Dynasty. This is important because China was ruled for 400 years and all of the amazing things that came out of this.
Source: "Han Dynasty." Minnesota State University Mankato. Minnesota State University , 21 May 2002. Web. 20 Oct 2010.
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