China’s Short-Lived Qin Empire
In continuation of China's story, we meet the Qin Empire. Ying Ming ruled the Qin state well before he conquered his fellow state rulers and remonikered himself the First August Lord of Qin. Once he took over the other states, Qin Legalism became entrenched on a far wider scale than before, and instead of a more feudal approach like the Zhou took, imperial appointees and administrative beauracracies fulfilled the role of running and regulating the given state. After Qin Shi Huangdi died in 210 BC, things soon derailed. Court intrigue, murder, and growing rebellion are all part of the tail end of Qin's story. Out of the vying would be sucessors, Gaozu of Han would establish the following Han Empire.
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