Criteria • Your message should be no longer than a TV ad or a full-page newspaper ad. You can also use social media to share your message. • It should aim to be persuasive. • It should be selective, using only those facts that make the emperor look good. 1. Identify three achievements that you think Qin Shihuang would want advertised. 2. Develop each of these into a brief, persuasive and positive message. 3. Create a simple advertisement that includes all of these messages. You may want to include images or even acting (in the case of a commercial). 4. Communicate your propaganda message to your peers.
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REMEMBER AND UNDERSTAND 1. Ying Zheng gave himself the title __________, which means ‘First Emperor of the Qin’. 2. Qin Shihuang reduced the inþuence of Confucian scholars by ordering that they be imprisoned. True or False? 3. Explain why Qin Shihuang weakened the power of the nobles. 4. Propose how the emperor’s attempts to live forever might have contributed to his early death. 5. Explain how standard calendars, laws, money, weights and measures, axle widths and system of writing would have made trade, taxation and government more efýcient. ANALYSE AND APPLY 6. Describe what is being done in SOURCE2 andwhy. 7. SOURCE3 is a secondary source and SOURCE5 is a photograph of a primary source. Compare them to judge the accuracy of SOURCE3 . 8. Describe features of the Great Wall that would have made it an effective barrier against invasion. 9. Look at the landscape in SOURCE5 and read the SOURCE3 caption. Deduce why so many people could have died building the Great Wall. EVALUATE AND COMMUNICATE 10. Read SOURCE4 and other information in this lesson and answer the following. a. Describe how Chinese society changed under the ýrst emperor. b. Predict how groups such as the nobles, peasants and Confucian scholars would have regarded these changes. Answers and sample responses for this topic are available online.
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