Another intellectual in the Han Dynasty, Jia yi, went as far as to suggest the Qin Dynasty's fall was due to Qin Shi Huang's failure to rule with the Confucius ideas of humanity and righteousness. ... He notably stated that the Han Dynasty would last for a very long time due to adapting the Qin's bureaucratic and administrative systems. ... The system was perpetuated in the Han dynasty, to which the Chinese deemed one of the two most prosperous times in Chinese history. Thereafter, with minor modifications, the system became the norm for later dynasties, eventually developing in...

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From around 2000 BC, Chinese civilisation was led by a progression of dynasties until the collapse of the very last Manchu (Qing) Dynasty in 1912. ... Known as Shi Huangdi, "Supreme Emperor of the First Generation", he established the Qin Dynasty (a.k.a. ... This led to the establishing of the "Code of Qin". ... The Qin Dynasty initiated the imperial system in China and set a pattern of changes that followed and developed Traditional China till 1912. ... From the beginning of the first dynasty till the falling stages of the last dynasty, Chinese ...

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However, each theory was different and therefore had different results on the dynasties. ... "Emperor Qin divided the empire into 40 administrative units called "commanderies" which were further divided into districts and counties. ... " Although there were uprisings from the peasants due to the forced labor which eventually led the Qin dynasty to it's end, legalism was a very effective way of stabilizing China and upholding the legal code. ...

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Qin Shihuangdi, a ruler that tried to unify China, succeeded in defeating the warring states and unifying China, developing an effective bureaucracy, adapting a philosophy called Legalism, and enjoying a rapidly rising agricultural output and a growing population. ... If the ruler didn't rule properly in China, the Mandate of Heaven was thought to be lost and natural disasters and social upheaval may have disposed the dynasty. ... In China, Buddhism, originally coming from India, received little support from the Han dynasty rulers, and only modestly spread among the Chinese until the Han ...

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