Qin Empire (jan 1, 221 BC – apr 30, 202 BC)
Description:
-Where: China
-The Qin supported a free peasantry so that peasants would provide military service and pay taxes
-Confucianism became widespread; the Qin also wanted to unify China culturally by imposing uniform weights, measures, coins, laws, and writing systems
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Date:
jan 1, 221 BC
apr 30, 202 BC
~ 18 years