We will look at the creation of China. We start by looking at the Yellow River Civilization and how they spread to the Yang Tze River Basin. How the people formed a unified ethnic group called the Han Chinese. From there we look at the creation of the very first dynasty, the Shang Dynasty. How it was replaced with the Zhou Dynasty, and how it dissolved into the Warring States Period. We then focus on the start of the Chinese Iron Age. And how it allowed the State of Qin to grow into one of the powerful states at the end of the Warring States Period. We then follow the life of Qin Shi Huang, or Ying Zheng, how he was called at birth. We talk about how they conquered the other 6 states of the Zhao, Wei, Qi, Han, Chu, and Yan. And we look at how the Qin state unified China under the Qin Dynasty. From there we look at how they unified Chines language, Chinese writing, and Chinese bureaucracy. And how it became an early centralized state. After Qin the Chinese Empire collapsed and we see the emergence of the Han Dynasty. Credits - Research: Mrs Scope - Animation: Petra Lilla Marjai - Audio: Seb. Soto - Writing and Voice Over: Avery from History Scope Social Media - Discord: https://discord.gg/JYCYPvqba6 - Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScopeHistory - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialhistoryscope/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/averythingchannel/ Sources Websites https://www.britannica.com/topic/Qin-dynasty https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-asia/imperial-china/qin-dynasty/a/qin-dynasty-c-221206-b-c-e-an-introduction https://www.worldhistory.org/Warring_States_Period/#:~:text=The%20Warring%20States%20Period%20(481,the%20first%20unified%20Chinese%20state https://core.ac.uk/reader/81146530 Books J. Clements (2019) A Brief History of China. Tuttle Publishing. North Clarendon. Articles G. L. Mayhew – The Formation of the Qin Dynasty:A Socio-technical System of Systems. Procedia Computer Science 8 (2012) 402 – 412 Y. Guo – Contingency and Historical Inevitability in the Development of the Qin Dynasty. Journal of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences. Volume 8 (2023) S. Feng – The Rise of Zhou and Qin Dynasties and the Change of the Position of the Qian Diagram in the Eight Diagrams. Asian Culture and History; Vol. 15, No. 1 (2023) W. Huang, M. Xi, S. Lu, F. Taghizadeh-Hesary – Rise and Fall of the Grand Canal in the Ancient Kaifeng City of China: Role of the Grand Canal and Water Supply in Urban and Regional Development. Water 2021, 13, 1932. J. Huang – Research on the Causes of the Destruction of the Qin Dynasty. Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 119. Parveen, K., & Akram, H. (2021). Insight of Chinese culture by viewing historical picture of Qin Dynasty. Journal of Social Sciences Advancement, 2(1), 17–24.