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China In V - Iii V. Before N.E.

V-III century BC. E. Often referred to as the Zhangguo period (Warring States). Indeed, the war became at this time the most common means for the ancient Chinese states to reach their political goals. The nature of wars has changed significantly. If in the VIII-V centuries. BC. E. Zhuhou resorted to military force mainly in order to frighten their neighbors and make them obey, then in Zhangguo the war was to lead to the destruction of another kingdom, its destruction, the seizure of its territory. China In the V - Iii B. Before N. E. ....

The consequence of this was a sharp reduction in the total number of ancient Chinese kingdoms and an increase in their size. In the middle of the I millennium BC. E. On the political map there were only seven largest Middle Kingdoms - Qin, Zhao, Wei, Han, Yan, Qi and Chu. In an effort to achieve decisive superiority over their neighbors, many of them now resort to a strategy of unions - "vertical", uniting northern and southern states (mainly Zhao and Chu), and "horizontal", west-east (Qin and Qi). The development of the political situation in this direction posed the problem of further reducing the number of independent kingdoms and, in the future, the victory of any one of them. When in the beginning of IV in. BC. E. One of the greatest thinkers of that time, Mencius, was asked what he saw as a way to pacify the Heavenly Empire, he did not hesitate to reply: "In unification."

The prerequisite for the destruction of the former political boundaries of the ancient Chinese kingdoms and their unification was the development of economic ties between them. It is not by chance that another philosopher of the time, Xun-ts'zi, emphasizing the indisputable fact of differences in the climatic conditions of various Middle Kingdoms, nevertheless considered them together as a kind of community functioning at the expense of trade relations: goods produced in the north, regularly Were delivered to the south, and vice versa. The spontaneous unification of the coin, which had circulation on the territory of several neighboring states, is becoming a reflection of the process of strengthening economic ties between individual ancient Chinese kingdoms.

Thus, in the east, the region of distribution of the coin produced in Qi in the form of a knife is formed, in the north - in the form of an extension (Zhao), in the west, a round coin with an aperture (Qin).

China In V - Iii V. Before N.E.

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