China's early history was one of repetitive cycles. These ranged from cycles of war and violence which plagued early China to the repitition of technologies which helped with this warfare. A final repition was the repition of suffering for early China before stronger governments could influence it. The first repition that plagued early China was the repition of warfare. This cycle started during the warring states period and lasted further until the unification of the country via warfare under the Qin and the warfare against the barbarians after this point. Another cycle of history in early China was that of technologies which assisted with the warfare waged by China. The first of these was the great aquaducts which fed the Qin armies during
