There's a brief period right over here where you have the Qin Dynasty gets established, and that separates the Western Han from the Eastern Han, but this is a significant period of development of Chinese philosophy, Chinese writing, Chinese technology that lasts even until today. And to get an appreciation of the Confucian philosophy, remember, Confucian lived over several hundred years before the Han Dynasty, but this is when it really becomes the philosophy, or even you could think of the religion of China. I'll leave you with a few quotes from Confucius, and I'll do a whole video on him later on, but these are some of my favorite. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance, and this is a version of the Golden Rule. Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. And to put into context, these ideas of Confucius, the writing, the mathematics that was developed there, it was the civil service, these continue on for several thousand years, and this was during the time, just to think about what else was going on in the world, this was at the time of the Roman Empire. And so it is interesting that at the time of the Qin and then Han Dynasties, where you first have this real centralized empire, that was right around the time that Rome itself was also becoming centralized, and it's interesting to think about what was it about that period of history where you have these two significant empires starting to really emerge, and they weren't completely isolated.