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Qin government portrayed as oppressive and cruel

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Minister Li Si is credited with creating one standard style of writing and making its use universal

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"Thus, it was the emphasis on standardization that helped the Chinese create a cultural unity that lives on today."

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Made transportation quicker and smoother by creating 4250 miles of highways

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Created five "speedways" that fanned out from the capital

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Standardized weights and measures to make tax-paying and trade easier

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Required the collection of tax and distribution of staple foods on an equitable basis.

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Minted new copper coins to standardize the currency

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Ordered all books not related to legalism, farming, war, or alchemy to be burned

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Anyone who criticized him would be buried alive

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Legalism united the country - made it necessary to control and regulate people's lives, which ended the Warring States Period's chaos

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Declared black the official color for dress and created a hexadecimal system

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Enforced laws that demanded order and sameness

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Ordered the construction of the first great wall of China

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Sought immortality and forced thousands of people to work for him in search of eternal life

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Laborers who built his mausoleum were sentenced to death as not to disclose its location

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Sought to destroy any contrary thought or opposition

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Sought to destroy any contrary thought or opposition

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Adopted the title "Qin Shi Huangdi" (first emperor of China) from his birth name Zhao Zheng

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Defeated all the states by 221 BCE and united them under his rule

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After his father's death, he was appointed king of the Qin state in 246 BC (at age 13)

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