Qin Dynasty Map: Large Boarders

Christa Knell                                                       2/5/12

Photo is from: http://homepages.stmartin.edu/Fac_Staff/rlangill/HIS%20217/HIS%20217%20Maps.htm

The Qin Dynasty(221-206 BC) were a little bit smaller than modern day China’s boarders. During the warring states period, China was broken up into 7 main states and a few smaller ones. Once Emperor Qin took power he unified China into one big land. The Qin land is actually slightly bigger than the warring states time. The Qin dynasty mostly controlled land in the northern half of the country. At the northern boarder of Qin was the Great Wall of China, which prevented the Mongols from the north to invade China. On the map there are two major rivers that run through China. they are the Yellow and the Yangtze Rivers. These rivers were very important because they were very larger and allowed lots of transportation by water. The capital of Qin was Xianyang, which was the home of the first emperor of China. At the time this was a very popular city and also had very fertile land. Even though modern day China’s boarders are bigger now, the Qin dynasty controlled a lot of Chinas imperial land.