China’s Amazing Global Role For 2,000 Years discusses China’s history from its founding over 2,000 years ago by Ying Zheng (259-210 BCE) who united the seven warring states of Chin, Zhao, Wei, Han, Chu, Yan, and Qi. He became Emperor Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. As a founder of the powerful Qin Dynasty (221-207), he was the first monarch in China to be called an emperor.

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