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Is the Qin Dynasty the greatest dynasty in history?
In the history of China, all unified dynasties made their own contributions to the development of China in different historical periods-expanding territory, resisting foreign aggression, developing economy, consolidating reunification, or promoting national integration ... Although the Qin Dynasty was short-lived, it did not prevent it from being a great dynasty. Of course, there are so many dynasties in China, and this is just one of them! The Qin dynasty (22 BC1-207 BC) lasted 14 years. So what are its major achievements that affect future generations? Let's see:

First of all, politically, it ended the long-term scuffle between princes and created the first unified feudal dynasty in China. Since then, the history of China's feudal dynasty has been opened for more than 2,000 years, and centralization has been established. Zheng claimed to be the first emperor, and the emperor was also the supreme ruler of China for more than 2,000 years.

Economically, money and weights and measures are unified. In terms of currency, it is stipulated that gold and copper are used uniformly throughout the country. Gold is the upper coin, copper is the lower coin, and copper coins are called Qin Banliang. The length, size and weight of weights and measures formulated by Shang Yang are the national unified standards. The unification of the two has positively promoted the economic development.

Since Shang Yang's political reform, Qin paid more and more attention to agricultural production while formally acknowledging the privatization of land, which developed the enthusiasm of farmers and was also beneficial to the state's tax revenue.

Culture: seal script was promoted, then simplified into official script, which became popular all over the country.

Military aspect: Dingding China's territorial basis, the northern expedition to Xiongnu, Nanping Baiyue, formed a vast territory from Liaodong in the east, Longshu in the west, the desert in the north and the South China Sea in the south.

The Great Wall of Wan Li began in the Qin Dynasty. Qin Shihuang connected the old Great Walls of northern countries to form the Great Wall of Wei Jun, which starts from Lintao in the north and crosses Wan Li on the solstice in winter.

These are important achievements that have influenced China's later generations for thousands of years, and have always influenced the whole feudal history. Of course, there are also some disadvantages, such as imprisoning thoughts, burning books and burying Confucianism, and legalist criminal law strictly governing the people, because these disadvantages have also led to the short history of the country 14 years. Since ancient times, its greatness lies in its influence on the creation system of the whole feudal history in 2000.