Just curious. I understand that he was the first Chinese emperor and the one who conquered the whole thing and created a unified China, but what was that region, exactly, before it was unified? Was it, like, individual city-states? A bunch of tiny kingdoms? Or just sort-of provinces of one large country?
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To challenge the premise of your question, why do we think of China as a unified entity post-Qin? The territory of modern China has been politically fragmented for most of its history up until the Qing; this kind of historical narrative suits only the nation whose territorial claims are legitimized by the idea of a continuously unified civilization-state.
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