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didibus 9 days ago

I'm not an historian or even did any extensive research on this. I thought that the Qin dynasty established a ton of standards super aggressively and also worked very fast to erase and assimilate. Even if it didn't last long, it kind of set the pattern.

thaumasiotes 8 days ago | parent [-]

It lasted for fourteen years, with a sharp drop in stability for the last three of those. No, that's not enough time to do cultural transformation.

The shared values, religion, language, and writing preexisted the Qin. So much was shared that the state of Qin considered it a problem - Qin propaganda (before the conquest) tended to emphasize how different they were from the other Chinese states.