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| | The Illuminated Lantern: The Rise and Fall of the Qin Dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | The larger states proceeded to swallow up the smaller, and by the reign of Duke Xiao of Qin (361 BC), there were only a half dozen powerful states left: the Chu, Jin, Yan, Han, Qi, Zhao, and Zhou. |
 | | In the sixth year (241 BC) of his reign, five of the states joined together in attacking Qin, but were defeated. |
 | | Enough copies of the Confucian classics survived and continue to be read to this day, but any histories written by states other than Qin are lost to us forever, so even today the world lacks knowledge it otherwise could have had, because of the cruel acts of an Emperor, 2000 years ago. |
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