Analyze Han Dynasty China (206 BCE - 220 CE) — Qin antecedent under Shi Huangdi (221-206 BCE), Han imperial bureaucracy + Confucian state ideology under Wu of Han, scholar-official system precursor to imperial examinations, Sima Qian's Shiji historiography, Ban Gu and Ban Zhao Han Shu — per Mark Edward Lewis 2007 and Michael Loewe scholarship
Exercise Difficulty 4 ~6 min hist.g6.s.ex_26

Rubric Response

MG-9 Illustration
16x24 inch classroom poster, warm-amber background with deep-bronze serif text: 'WE PROMISE: Every person we study — emp

16x24 inch classroom poster, warm-amber background with deep-bronze serif text: 'WE PROMISE: Every person we study — emperor or enslaved, scribe or farmer, scholar or stonemason, named or anonymous — was first a human being. We say their names when we have them. We honor the anonymous when we don't. We refuse to reduce any person to a footnote, a statistic, or a chattel.' Includes silhouetted procession of named-and-anonymous figures across the bottom: emperor figure, enslaved figure carrying a stone block, scribe figure with bronze stylus, mother figure with child, farmer figure with sickle, monk figure with scroll. Frame: simple wood, classroom-display-ready.

Prompt

Apply MG-9 Humanity-FIRST to Ban Zhao. Write 3-5 sentences holding BOTH her achievement AND her text's restrictive effects.

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Ban Zhao (c. 45-117 CE) — extraordinary scholar who completed her brother's Han Shu after his death; imperial-court tutor; one of the earliest known woman historians in world history. AND her Lessons for Women (Nüjie c. 80 CE) has been used to limit women's autonomy for 1,900 years. BOTH are true. MG-9 Humanity-FIRST holds complexity
Hints
  1. MG-9 means not flattening her to footnote.
  2. Ban Zhao is complex.
Misconceptions to watch
  • Reducing Ban Zhao to all-good or all-bad binary
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