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The First Emperor of China

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The Great Wall of China

Chin chi wang di ruled a huge empire. But how did he make sure people knew about all his new rules, without emales and text messages or tiktok? He sent out loads of government officials or bureaucrats to get everyone to follow the emperor's orders. This was an army of clever nerds who were good at boring paper work. And they forced the old, rich, powerful families from around china to move to the new capital city of janyang where the emperor could keep an eye on them. They also made tons of people move to different parts of china, often to work on his huge building projects. Some of these benefited everyone, such as the roads

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