AH: a question for the audience
I’m looking at a point in the history of the Kingdom of Qin during the Warring States period that would have most easily short-circuited the Qin efforts to conquer the other kingdoms and establish an empire. Suggestions welcome.
What I’m looking at is that the idea of China as a unified imperial state is nowhere near a certain thing, and that it was just as possible to see something more akin to the European states of the middle ages all over what is now considered the ’standard’ territory of China.