onquered the rest of China after a few hundred years of disunity with his strict legalist attitudes and punishments and because of the Iron Age. He had more iron weapons than any other army so his technology overpowered his rivals. Qin is accredited with linking together all of the principalities walls to form the Great Wall of China. He died in 210 BCE and a revolution was started that set the way for the Han dynasty.
The Han dynasty plays a very important role in Chinese history. For starters, they invented Chinese history as we know it today. Additionally, the overwhelmingly predominant ethnic group in China is called the Han; they are named after the dynasty. But, most importantly, they developed the administrative model, which every successive dynasty would copy. The Han dynasty is broken into different periods like the Zhou dynasty, Earlier Han (206 BCE - AD 8) Wang Mang Interregnum (AD 8 - 25) Later Han (25 – 220AD). Eventually, in AD 220, the dynasty had lost so much control to the provinces that it colla
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