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	The Warring States Period of Ancient China
		Qin was not only not initially considered one of the contenders, it was not even considered fully Chinese.
		The kingdom of Qin of the northwest finally conquered the southeastern kingdom of Chu in 223 BCE.
		The Han Empire roughly matched the period of the Roman Empire in West.
	www2.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/warringstates.htm (596 words)

	Qin Dynasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Qin Dynasty (Chinese: 秦朝; Pinyin: Qín Cháo; Wade-Giles: Ch'in Ch'ao) (221 BC - 206 BC) was preceded by the Zhou Dynasty and followed by the Han Dynasty in China.
		Qin Shi Huangdi imposed the State of Qin's centralized, non-hereditary bureaucratic system on his new empire in place of the Zhou's feudalistic one.
		Qin aggrandizement was aided by frequent military expeditions pushing forward the frontiers in the north and south.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Qin_Empire (931 words)

	Qin Dynasty
		Qin Dynasty (秦 221 BC - 207 BC) followed Zhou Dynasty and preceded the Han Dynasty in China.
		At the end of the Period of the Warring States, Ying Zheng of Qin was able to conquer all the independent states and put everyone under his own control, ending the so-called feudal system of the Zhou Dynasty.
		The Great Wall was built to defend his empire against the Xiongnu in the north, a lavish tomb was created, and canals and bridges were also built.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/qi/Qin_dynasty.html (411 words)

	Battle of Fei River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The aftermath of the battle includes the Former Qin empire falling into massive civil war and its eventual destruction, ensuring the survival of Eastern Jin and other regimes south of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang).
		Most Former Qin generals opposed, but Fu Jiān overruled them, planning to attack the Jin forces as they were crossing the river.
		The Former Qin capital Chang'an would fall in 385 to the Xianbei forces of Western Yan, and Fu Jiān himself would die later that year at the hands of his former general Yao Chang, the founder of Later Qin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Fei_River (855 words)

	AnywhereChina.com - History Page - Qin Dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Qin was the strongest state among the seven surviving states from Zhou Dynasty.
		The former ruling families who had inherited their places in the aristocracy were uprooted and forced to live in the capital of Xianyang.
		The Qin empire stretched from the Mongolian plateau in the north to Vietnam in the south.
	www.anywherechina.com /history/dynasties/qin/qin.htm (524 words)

	search.com - Maurya Empire - Search.com Reference
		The Mauryan Empire was perhaps the greatest empire to rule the Indian subcontinent until the arrival of the British.
		The assassination of Brhadrata and the rise of the Sunga empire led to a wave of persecution for Buddhists, and a resurgence of Hinduism.
		Although the Maurya and Qin both contended with vast populations and lands newly-unified by one centralized state, the rapid decline of the latter in fourteen years versus the much longer duration of the former (Maurya dynasty c.321-181 BC) may in part be explained by the brutal Legalist philosophy associated with Qin rule.
	www.search.com /reference/Maurya_Empire (3192 words)

	Qin
		The Qin came to power in 221 B.C. They were one of the western states that existed during the Warring States Period.
		The Qin, while not the most culturally advanced of the Warring States was militarily the strongest.
		First, the Qin implemented a Legalist form of government, which was how the former Qin territory had been governed.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/china/early_imperial_china/qin.html (564 words)

	1. The Qin Dynasty - All Empires
		Qin was originally a small, backward state on the western fringes of the Zhou Empire.
		Qin was backward in terms of culture, but it had a very strong and disciplined army which included chariots and a powerful cavalry force.
		Qin power was at a high point after this victory, but a coalition of states managed to keep its power in check.
	www.allempires.com /article/index.php?q=the_qin_dynasty (1130 words)

	The Warring States Period of Ancient China
		Qin was not only not initially considered one of the contenders, it was not even considered fully Chinese.
		The wars that occured were not generally ones due to diplomatic or territorial frictions among the seven states but instead were wars stemming from one state attempting to conquer and control all of the states.
		The kingdom of Qin of the northwest finally conquered the southeastern kingdom of Chu in 223 BCE.
	www.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/warringstates.htm (596 words)

	Records of the Grand Historian: Qin Dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When he had thus pacified the empire, the First Emperor believed in his heart that, with the strength of his capital within the passes and his walls of metal extending 1,000 miles, he had established a rule that would be enjoyed by his sons and grandsons for 10,000 generations.
		The Qin ruler, having annexed the lands of all the other feudal lords, faced south and called himself an emperor, proprietor of all within the four seas, and the gentlemen of the empire docilely bowed before the wind of his influence.
		Qin put an end to the Warring States period and made itself ruler of the empire, but it did not change its ways or reform its system of government, which shows that the means employed to seize an empire differ from those needed to guard it.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~mszonyi/280/280doc/Qin.html (3342 words)

	A Unified Empire
		The State of Qin sat in a strategic position in the western reaches of the fertile Wei River valley surrounded by mountains and the Yellow River with only the narrow Han-ku Pass to defend.
		King Zhao of Qin died just ten years after the fall of the Zhou Dynasty, leaving the throne to his thirteen year-old son, Ying Cheng.
		The writings of Han Feizi left their mark on the State of Qin, which adopted many of its Legalist principles and quickly became a very wealthy and frighteningly autocratic military power.
	koreanhistoryproject.org /Ket/C01/E0109.htm (2795 words)

	Qin Dynasty
		The Qin came to power in 221BC as one of the western states that existed during the Warring States Period.
		The Qin, which was not the most culturally advanced of the Warring States, was the strongest in terms of military.
		First, the Qin implemented a legalist form of government under which the former Qin territory was governed.
	www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_22719.htm (542 words)

	The Historical Mongol Empire
		Despite the unknown break up of the Mongol Empire Kublai continued to expand it on his side of the empire and in 1267 he began his campaign to unite all of modern China with the Mongol Empire.
		On the happier side for the Mongol they were having great success against the Sung Empire, in 1276 they captured the Sung capitol of Hangzhou and in 1279 the enter Sung Empire was united with the Mongol Empire but more importantly it was united with the rest of China.
		The Mongol Empire one of the largest empires ever created in the world was destroyed in a matter of 168 years.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/2532/page9.html (2213 words)

	Chinese History - Sixteen States äº”è¡ååå map and geography (www.chinaknowledge.de)
		The successor state of the Later Zhao empire was a group of empires called Yan (the first being Former Yan åç•) that were almost entirely founded by members of the Murong clan æ•å®¹ of the Xianbei tribe é®®å‘.
		In the region of Chang'an (modern Xi'an/Shaanxi), the kingdom of Former Qin åç§¦ was established that was able to defeat all neigboring kingdoms and even to invade the area of Sichuan.
		The successor state of Former Qin, Later Qin å¾ç§¦, could defeat its neighbors, the Later Liang å¾æ¶¼ in the Gansu corridor, and the weak Western Yan è¥¿ç• that is usually not counted among the Sixteen Kingdoms.
	www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Division/shiliuguo-map.html (615 words)

	Very Brief Timeline on Pu Yi
		Clearly the Qin state was strong and its people were like nothing else in China at the time so when Ying Zheng, continuing the work of his predecessors, brought the armies of Qin against her neighbors China quickly fell to the state of Qin.
		With many former states all with their own variations of the Chinese language and measures, a new system was needed in order to bring these people together.
		With the Qin having a history of being a military state, defense was crucial to the emperor (Bodde 180).
	www.indiana.edu /~ealc100/Group12/qin.html (1297 words)

	Ethics of Legalism, Qin Empire and Han Dynasty by Sanderson Beck
		The king of Qin was delighted to meet the philosopher, but Li Si warned the king that Han Fei was of the royal family of Han and likely to remain loyal to that state and therefore be against Qin.
		Qin Empire 221-206 BC In 221 BC when Qin took over Qi, the last of the other six states, King Zheng's first official act was to declare himself First August Emperor (Shih Huang Di) of what we still call China from the name of his state of Qin.
		In the late summer of 209 BC a former laborer named Chen She, who was in charge of transporting 900 convicts to a penitentiary settlement, was delayed by rain from arriving on time.
	www.san.beck.org /EC16-Legalism.html (14635 words)

	Xian History: Emperor Qin Shi Huang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Qin Shi Huang a controversial leader, with contradictions ranging from a brutal tyrant to a peculiar but great leader, and the eternal emperor in China.
		Qin Shi Huang had a beleaguered and unstable childhood due to frequent wars between the seven states existing during the period.
		Qin Shi Huang ordered the construction of a road system linking the former Yan, Qi, Wu and Chu areas, as well as number of roads especially for imperial use.
	www.cnhomestay.com /city/terracotta/xian_history.htm (1281 words)

	Qing Empire 1644-1799 by Sanderson Beck
		Competition became stiffer with increased population, as the total number of positions for magistrates in the empire was surpassed by the number of Zhuren degrees earned every third year.
		Just as the Chinese empire was ruled by the edicts of the emperor without a legislature, the local counties were under the jurisdiction of the magistrates, who acted as investigators, judges, and juries.
		The Tang empire had been expanded, but later in his reign military expenses of guarding the new frontiers caused hardships for the peasants.
	www.san.beck.org /3-8-QingEmpire1644-1799.html (13185 words)

	Battle of Fei River ( 淝水之战 )
		The Battle of Fei River (淝水之战) was a battle in 383, where Fu Jian (符坚) of the Former Qin (先秦) was decisively defeated by the numerically inferior army of Eastern Jin (东晋).
		The aftermath of the battle includes the Former Qin empire falling into massive civil war and its eventual destruction, ensuring the survival of Eastern Jin and other regimes south of the Yangtze River.
		In 370 he conquered the state of Former Yan and in 373 seized almost all of Sichuan from the Jin.
	www.chinadetail.com /History/MilitaryDevelopmentFeiRiver.php (868 words)

	All Empires - The Qin Dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		And so the 19th century was a period of slow but sure decline and humiliation for a country that had once been the world's leader in innovation, technology and economics.
		An empire that had lasted through over four thousand years of rich history and culture was destined to become a semi-colony, carved up by the Western powers, while corrupt officials gorged themselves on public funds and weak emperors sat on the Dragon Throne.
		In 1894 a pro-Japanese Korean reformist was assassinated in Shanghai and a Korean religious sect, the Tonghak, began a rebellion.
	www.allempires.com /empires/qing/qing2.htm (2745 words)

	Chinese History - Sixteen States ååå - Later Qin å¾ç§¦ (www.chinaknowledge.de)
		Further, he was able to conquer a great territory of the Jin Empire (that should be reconquered soon by the Jin), and he destroyed the Empires of Western Qin (Xiqin è¥¿ç§¦) and Later Liang (Houliang å¾æ¶¼).
		The short-lived empire of Later Qin was a time of flourishing Buddhism - the translator monk Kumarajiva stayed in Chang'an for several years.
		The Qin empire is named after the old feudal state of Qin ç§¦ during the Zhou Dynasty å‘¨.
	www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Division/rulers-houqin.html (407 words)

	Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor: Xian Tours, Xian Attractions
		Emperor Qin Shi Huang (also called Qin Shi Huangdi by westerners or the First Emperor) was the founder of the first unified empire in the history of China.
		Yingzheng (the name of Qin Shi Huang) led a tough childhood when his father, son of the King of Qin state, was held hostage in the State of Zhao until Lu Buwei, a wealthy merchant secured their release back to the Qin.
		Ying Zheng became the King of Qin at the age of 13 upon the death of his father.
	www.warriortours.com /cityguides/xian/mausoleum_qinshihuang (579 words)

	Battle of the Fei River - China History Forum, chinese history forum
		The Qian Qin army was worn down by attrition and dared not attempt any counter attacks, for they were so frightened by the experience that they even thought that the sound of the wind and the cries of the cranes were the sounds of approach of the Bei Fu troops.
		Nonetheless, the Qin army at the Fei River numbered 308,000 - this was the advance force commanded by Fu Rong 苻融; another 600,000 infantry and 270,000 cavalry had been left behind by Fu Jian on the northern side of the Huai River in his hurry to catch up with Fu Rong.
		Fu Jian had tried to create an empire in which all the ethnicities could live in peace and equality, despite the advice of some of his ministers to exterminate the Qiang and Xianbei or at least not to use them in the government and army.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=131 (4243 words)

	Five Dynasties and Ten States, China Dynasty History, Ancient Chinese History
		Reunification of the empire was to commence under the Song Dynasty from 960 AD onwards.
		Although the Former Shu had the shortest existence of these independent states, it survived for thirty-four years, twice as long as the Later Liang Dynasty, which in turn had been the longest survivor among the Five Dynasties.
		One by one the Ten States came under the rule of the Song and with the fall of the Northern Han, China was reunited and the empire that was to last for a thousand years re-established.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /intro/history/five_dynasty (1350 words)

	Ancient China: The Former Han, 206 BC-25 AD
		The laws were made less harsh and punishments less severe, and the regimentation of the population, particularly conscripted labor, was softened.
		In the fading years of the former Han dynasty, court officials turned to the Han regent, Wang Mang, who ruled in place of the infant emperor.
		The Former Han dynasty officially ended when Wang Mang declared himself the emperor; his new dynasty, formed from inside the Han dynasty, had fallen into chaos.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/CHEMPIRE/FORMHAN.HTM (1115 words)

	Ming Empire 1368-1644 by Sanderson Beck
		In 1508 silver mine quotas were increased even though the ore was diminishing; Liu Qin's agents sold salt beyond the quotas of the government monopoly; Liu Qin began selling military commissions for grain; and heavy fines were imposed on officials displeasing Liu Qin.
		In 1510 the Prince of Anhua revolted against Liu Qin and was taken to the capital by supreme commander Yang Yiqing and the eunuch army inspector Zhang Yong.
		The dramatist Kang Hai (1475-1540) went to the corrupt premier Liu Qin and persuaded him that the talent of the imprisoned official Li Xianji would be wasted if he were executed; but years later after Liu Qin was gone, the powerful Li Xianji allowed Kang Hai to be dismissed.
	www.san.beck.org /3-7-MingEmpire.html (23715 words)

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