What Events Led Up To The Han's Expansion And Economy

The Han’s Expansion and Economy is about an analysis of about events leading up the Han’s expansion and economy. The purpose is to show the importance of how fast the Han Dynasty had recovered from turmoil and yet was able to prosper in a matter of time. The Han was recovering from a major turmoil from the Qin Dynasty: from callous decrees to the transition between the Qin-Han. The Qin-Han transition is had occurred between the fall of the Qin and the beginning of the Han. In between the transition it had cause chaotic to the both the people and land. Therefore, this is to analyze of events leading up to the Han’s expansion and economy that brought prosperity to the Han Dynasty, especially during Wu-ti’s reign as emperor. To analyze the topic,

Kao-ti saw that it was unfitted to do any development in industrial and commercial, because he felt it would had not improved the economic growth during his reign, since his reign was the worse (Chang 81). Therefore, industrial and commercial had began and rose during Emperor Wen and Ching’s reign, 180-141 B.C. (Chang 81). When it first had begun, it was main industrial and commercial growth dealt with salt and iron industrial, making the most profit (Chang 82). The people benefited the industrial and commercial growth, had reach a significant level to allowed the population to re-populate. The industrial and commercial growth during Emperor Wu-ti reign had exceeded to the point, the money were able to conduct into a new government system which had finance a large scale of the military campaigns (Chang 81). During Wu-ti reign, he had enforced the people to expanded industrial and commercial growth elsewhere, rather than invested in salt and iron; the people had started investing into mining other important minerals such as gold, silver, and lead (Chang 84). At this stage, Wu-ti had the industrial and commercial at full bloom developed to the point where the cities had expand because the economy was beyond from being financially stable, the people had finally recovered. The next stage where to put the economic resource into financed the military expansion (Chang 85). The previous

The Ho-hsi is located west of the Yellow River and resided in the mountain near other barbarian groups (Chang 192). Because it an isolated territory far from the main cities; after the fall of the Qin Empire, the Ho-hsi was taken by the surrounding barbarians (Chang 193). The Ho-hsi was the most expensive campaign against the Hsiung-nu, but by conquering the Ho-hsi, the Wu-ti had enriched himself and the empire of agricultural and industrial resources and having controlled of the Silk Road (Chang 211). Having conquered the Ho-hsi, Emperor Wu-ti did not just stop there; he had his military troops expanded the territory westward to Pakistan (Chang 216). However, it did not stop there, he had also have the territory expansion in the south, conquering the northern part of the southeastern countries (Chang 239). While in his reign, Wu-ti had accomplished many goals for the success of the Han