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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China has a long history of reuniting and breaking apart. For most of its history, it is known as “The Middle Kingdom”
The modern name of China comes from the Qin dynasty, which was the last dynasty to rule China.
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