Imperial China
An imperial system of governance is where a country grows stronger by taking over smaller, poorer and weaker countries that have useful natural resources. The Chinese imperial government survived up to the early 1900s, precisely, 1912. Sanft (146) presents that, with the seasonal rise and fall of dynasties, China’s civilization was promoted and prospered in times of truce and then reshaped after rebellions and conquests. According to Sanft (147), the Qin Dynasty was the first dynasty to unite China as a country under an emperor instead of a ruling clan. A government was put in place by the Qin dynasty and was later continued by the Han Dynasty. Qin Shi Huang was the founding emperor in China, and he unified China by conquering other warring states. He also centralized the power of the empire after taking the throne and set up a system of laws that governed the empire (Sanft, 148). There followed several dynasties that unified the country until the Quing Dynasty that collapsed in 1912 to pave the way for the modern Republic of China’s era.
While the unification of China was based on the need of getting more natural resources, the lack of unity in European empires was as a result of military conquest and suppression of the weaker states that became rebellious like in the case of the Roman Empire. Chinese Emperors focused on the development of agriculture, handicraft, and commerce (Sanft, 150). However, during the Chinese dark ages, the Han dynasty declined, and the empire was divided into three but later united under the Jin Dynasty. The empire further fractured into southern and Northern dynasties, but after over 400 years of confusion, the Sui Dynasty unified China again (Xiong, np). This essay, therefore, concludes that China was a unified country under one government established by the Qin dynasty but ruled by several other dynasties that maintained the county’s unity until the early 1900s.
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