Practice question · Select all that apply
Which did the First Emperor standardize across his new empire?
Hints
- The standardisation covered script, measures, currency and even road ruts.
- Speech remained wildly diverse across the regions.
Show the answer
- A. The writing script
- B. Cart axle widths, to fit the roads’ ruts
- D. Weights, measures, and currency
Why
Script, coin, measure, and even axle-width, but not speech, which stayed wildly diverse. A shared writing system over mutually unintelligible dialects is exactly what let one script hold China together for millennia.
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