How Did The Qin Dynasty Reunify China After The Era Of The Warring States?

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What helped the Qin Dynasty reunify China after the Era of the Warring States?
After the era of the Warring States the Qin ruler managed to reunify the country by a combination of military force and administrative reorganization (pg176.) China became a unified empire after the six largest states surrendered or fell to Qin armies. `Shih Huang-di administrative gifts were tremendous and his personality defects were huge. The administration was unified on Legalist principles by the emperor who fixed weights and measures, made the size of the roads uniform so that all carts would fit the ruts, and introduced the first standard units of money (pg 176). They standardized the system of writing in such an effective way that it is almost the same in

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