the social classes of the Qin and Han dynasties were influenced by the tenets of Confucianism. they were patriarchal (men were the most powerful and held the highest social standing) and were largely based on familial piety, among other things. as for the economies, both dynasties employed centralized rule over their economies, and constructed government-owned monopolies over vital goods. both dynasties had centralized political structures ad well, although the Han dynasty attempted to create something that combined the overcentraliztion of the qin dynasty with the decentralization of the Zhou dynasty. this attempt, unfortunately, failed, causing them to use a more centralized political system.
