Imperial China from Qin to Qing, 221 BC–1912 | Calm Bedtime History
In 221 BC, in the former Qin capital of Xianyang, Ying Zheng proclaimed himself the First Emperor after defeating the last rival kingdoms. Couriers carried new measures, coinage, and written forms across the newly unified realm, beginning an imperial chronicle that would repeatedly divide and reunite before the Qing throne fell in 1912.
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