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1. Shi rejected Confucianism and burned Confucian books

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Construction of a network of roads and canals began to unite different parts of China

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Built the Great Wall of China

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Created uniform systems of writing and measurements

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1. Shi Huang-ti was the first emperor of China.

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2. He unified China.

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4. He was the first Chinese ruler to be called " Emperor "

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5. Shi believed people were not good and that they needed a strong government to punish people when they were bad.

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6. Shi centralized power by dividing China into different districts.

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7. Each district had its own military and civil administrator

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2. Legalism denounced the feudal system and encouraged severe punishments, particularly when the emperor was disobeyed.

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He created not only a standardized written language, but also the foundation for modern Chinese nationality.

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Confucius taught the need for patience, virtue, and a benevolent, or well-meaning leader, an idea that ran counter to the strict authoritarianism of the Qin Dynasty.

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Confucianist scholars were faced with three options: conform, go into hiding, or face execution.

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Philosophers who opposed Confucianists were known as Legalists.

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China was a patriarchal society, meaning that males held more influence than females.

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People in previous dynasties had believed in the possibility of a god, or perhaps many gods and goddesses; this belief continued during Qin times as well.

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However, unlike the Greeks or Romans who gave their many gods long descriptions and characteristics, the Chinese did not concern themselves with such things.

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religious focus was on finding the 'good life.

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Rituals were also important to spirituality, and could come in many, diverse forms, including military exercises and special meals.

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Upper-class families often emphasized the role of the extended family as well, meaning that aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents were often very close-knit, and sometimes even shared a residence.

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Qin's most famous historical site is the Terracotta Warriors.

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It was the shortest dynasty in Chinese history, lasting for just 15 years.

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King Zhao ordered the construction of a water conservation and flood control project, which was known as Dujiangyan irrigation system in the Chengdu Plain. This irrigation system transformed Sichuan into the most abundant grain producing region in China.

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Ying Zheng ordered a water engineer named Zheng Guo to build a canal from the Jing River

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The fertile land not only fed the peasants but also Qin's army, thus Qin State became rich and strong.

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the Ling Canal was built to connect the Xiang and Li rivers.

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When Yingzheng was in his reign, he defeated the other six states

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Qin Dynasty lasted for 15 years from around 221 to 206 B.C.E.

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It controlled large land holdings in eastern China along the Pacific ocean.

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Sinicization, sinicisation, sinofication, or sinification is a process whereby non-Chinese societies come under the influence of Chinese culture, particularly Han Chinese culture and societal norms.

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Producing stronger iron swords

Creating Crossbows (stronger and more accurate then the compound bows of the time)

Invented stirrups (allowing horseback infantrymen)

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Areas of influence include diet, writing, industry, education, language, law, lifestyle, politics, philosophy, religion, science and technology, culture, and value systems.

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The Zhou dynasty delegated power to the dynasty to protect certain areas. Zhou allocated the protecting the western border to the state of Qin.

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Simultaneously Zhou's eastward expansion was prevented by barbarians.

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More broadly, "Sinicization" may refer to policies of acculturation, assimilation, or cultural imperialism imposed by China onto neighboring East Asian countries.

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Qin used this opportunity to conquer surrounding land, gradually expanding eastward conquering Zhou domains and taking over Zhou settlements

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Evidence of this can be seen in the value systems, cuisine, architectural style, and lexicons.

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This is reflected in the histories of Japan and Korea for example, in the adoption of the Chinese writing systemas The script of the Han Chinese has long been a unifying feature in East Asia as the vehicle for exporting Chinese culture to both of the East Asian countries respectively.

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never really given the right to go to there full lengths and do what they love and use their talents to make something of themselves instead they where assigned one job and had to live a life knowing they could've accomplished more but didn't.

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The Qin dynasty, after unifying the territory later known as "China", took some contradictory measures to enhance the economical productivity of the empire.

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The Qin state’s economy was organized to create an agriculture-based, militarized society and to enhance the power and wealth of its ruler.

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"Only having one thing to do, every day. Dreams that can never be fourfold. Pure young hearts at such a young age corrupted by the rogue and viscous soldiers, this is not a family. Sending your kids to war out of force, letting the young beautiful girls to only see so low of them selves and not go to full lengths of their possible talents is treacherous."

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As a result, the Qin conquered neighboring states and unified China.

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The Qin Dynasty, which lasted from 221 B.C. to 206 B.C., did not long survive the death of its First Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi, but it bequeathed a standardized economy to future Chinese empires and states.

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The Qin Dynasty, which lasted from 221 B.C. to 206 B.C., did not long survive the death of its First Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi, but it bequeathed a standardized economy to future Chinese empires and states.