In other videos, we talk about some of the truly ancient Chinese dynasties, the Shang Dynasty, the Zhou Dynasty, and as we get to the end of the Zhou Dynasty, China falls into chaos in the Warring States period, which is a really tough time for China, but the silver lining is it's also the time that you have all of these schools of thought, the hundred schools of thought, of which Confucianism and Taoism and Legalism and all of these other schools of thought begin to emerge. But what we're really going to focus on in this video is the beginning of truly imperial China under the Qin Dynasty, from which China gets its name. So here we are in the third century BCE, and you have your first true emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, and the dynasty that he sets up is known as the Qin Dynasty, which will be shortly lived, but it's known as the first dynasty to truly unify China, and this is where we believe the word China actually comes from, from the Qin Dynasty. The dynasty is known for its fairly harsh, centralized rule, motivated or with a foundation on Legalism. In terms of relics that we have from that period, you might have heard of the Terracotta Army, which was buried along with Qin Shi Huang's grave. Now the Qin Dynasty is most known for ending the Warring States Period and unifying China and really laying the foundation for the Golden Age of China that will happen in the Han Dynasty. The Han Dynasty lasts from roughly 200 BCE to a little after 200 CE, and in my head, I think of it as a bit of a contemporary is the Roman Empire, the 200 years of the Western Han Dynasty correspond roughly to the Roman Republic, and as we get to the Eastern Han Dynasty, that corresponds to really the heyday of the Roman Empire.