To begin, fully answer one of the Discussion Question listed below (answer all questions contained in the number selected):
1. What were the major influences of Confucianism, Legalism and Daoism, and what role did each play in early Chinese history?
2. How were civilizations similar or different during the reign of the Zhou, the Period of the Warring States, and under the Qin Empire?
3. How did the First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty transform the political, social and economic institutes of early China?
4. To what extent did the Han Dynasty turn to Confucianism as an ideology of the state?