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The Qin could not have been predicted as China's unifier because it was marginal, poorer, and less culturally developed, like Rome or Macedonia before their own expansions.
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The Qin could not have been predicted as China's unifier because it was marginal, poorer, and less culturally developed, like Rome or Macedonia before their own expansions.
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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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