- Map showing the regions under each dynasty in the period of Warring States, “The Warring States of China c. 260 BCE,” no date Created by Philg88 and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/EN-WarringStatesAll260BCE.jpg.
Supporting Question 2 How did Shi Huangdi’s reforms standardize society?
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Supporting Question 3- To what extent did Shi Huangdi’s treatment of opponents diminish his success?
- Li Si (recorded by Sima Qian), historical account of the harsh treatment of the emperor’s opposition, “Memorial of the Burning of the Books,” 213 BCE From “Memorial of the Burning of the Books,” by Li Si (recorded by Sima Qian), in Sources of Chinese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600, compiled by William Theodore de Bary, Irene Bloom, and Joseph Adler. © 1999. Columbia University Press. Reprinted with permission of the publisher. http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/lisi_legalist_memorials.pdf.