The Han Golden Age

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The Han Golden Age was not a beneficial advancement of society for everyone because of the specific advancements in technology, culture, and philosophy like the invention of paper, the Exam System, and the establishment of a bureaucracy which favored Scholars and benefitted the higher classes specifically more so than the lower classes. An important achievement of the Han which benefited the higher classes of the Han society was the invention of paper. Paper was used to make books which scholars, whom a majority of which were from rich and powerful families, were able to study from. Consequently, the scholars increased their importance to Chinese society because as a rich scholar proper obtaining of knowledge allowed for a passing in a series