The First Emperor's Reforms and Centralized Government
How Qin Shi Huang Standardized Writing, Weights, Measures, Currency, and Administration to Govern a Unified China Introduction: Turning Conquest into an Empire When Qin Shi Huang unified the rival kingdoms in 221 BCE, he achieved something that generations of rulers had pursued without success. For centuries, ancient China had been divided among competing states, each with its own political insti…
