What happened to the former kings of pre-unified China after Qin Shi Huang’s conquest?

Were they executed, demoted to a lower noble title, or something else entirely?

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Former Qin defeats the Eastern Jin and reunifies China in the late IV century
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We are seeing vessels of other general, like tou, the former three great of Zhao, but not the other Qin six great
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Could Former Qin dynasty win the battle of fei river,if Murong chui was its commander?

I have heard that he was one of the best commander/warrior of his age,I couldn't remember that he lost even a single battle,his army survived Jin onslaught at Fei river which wipe off almost entire of Qin army.
What if he was commander in chief, could he defeat and conquer Jin? or at least stalemate.

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Emergency Summit of All Qin [All Former Zhongqin Union Members Under the Peace of Kenyama]

The turmoil developing between his fellow Qin was enough to arouse apprehension in Khan Dorgon. The balance set by the Great Realignment weighed heavily on his mind. Truly, Wansui, spread wide across the south, was the least balanced of the Qin, but the matter needed to be monitored carefully. Indeed, the fact that his good friends in Kaishi would break the spirit set forth by the Peace of Kenyama was disturbing.

However, his apprehension turned into his worst fears. Terror filled him when he heard outsiders were using this inter-Qin despute as opportunity to invade, befoul, and bring death and disharmony to Qin. Hearing Wansui’s citing of article 8 of that very same treaty, he had to act. The Khan called forth his brother in Harakaite and other allies in Lei and Kaishi to arms and treat on conditions of a coalition.

Despite the difference or whatever brought about this war, those in Kaishi were reasonable. They had to understand that they as Qin had an obligation, not only as Qin, but as honorable men to honor the treaty his father made. Without their fellow Qin, Wansui was risking a war on all sides. This could set precedent for future invaders from outside Qin. First Wansui, then who knows else? Outsiders needed to know Qin was for Qin alone, and that all Qin would defend that earth.

Even if he needed to force concessions from Wansui to Kaishi in order to cease this turmoil and unit all Qin to repel these invaders, they needed to see reason. The fate of all Qin was at risk.

[M] Assuming this is a war isolated in Wansui, and that Kampuchea, JV, and the Indians are attacking separate of Kaishi. [M]

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TIL that following the unification of China, the first Qin emperor claimed the former Chinese first-person singular pronoun for his personal use, forcing everyone else to use epithets such as "Foolish One." To this day, the modern Chinese first person pronoun is from "this [Worthless] Body." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy…
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Current state of my project to experience all highly notable literature/works.

Hi again. Three weeks ago I posted about a project I'm working on. For those who haven't seen it yet:

>So, I am embarking on an interesting project. I intend to experience the best art and media humanity has to offer before I die. Namely this is all the highly notable and interesting books, plays, art, music, films, TV shows, and video games. I guess you could call it a bucket list. I've been indexing it chronologically and downloading it to an external hard drive.

I then solicited suggestions for highly notable/significant ancient and medieval literature that I was missing from an early draft of what the list would cover. I got over 100 responses; it was clear I was missing a lot. So, I pretty much started from scratch, doing multiple sweeps of any pre-Renaissance literature, and incorporated many of the suggestions I received, ranging from missing individual works to missing authors and cultures.

I should also note that in order to prevent this list from becoming unwieldly, I am limiting myself to 10,000 entries total, forcing myself to take a more deliberate and top-down approach. So far, I have 261 entries for the time span 4000 BC to 1400 AD: 12 Ancient-era, 121 Classical-era, and 128 Medieval-era works. 251 are literature, 10 are music. In other words, 2.61% of the list is Medieval era works or earlier, which seems quite reasonable to me and leaves plenty of room for more modern works spanning across more mediums.

I thought I would share what I have so far before I begin work on more modern stuff. Note that bolded entries are in the top 1,000 works, the cream of the crop, the most notable of all. If you're following along with me and don't want it to take a decade or longer to get through the whole completed list, just sticking to the bolded entries will give you a good taste too.

Ancient Era (4000 BC - 1001 BC)

Year (circa) β€” Title β€” Origin Description
2350 BC β€” Pyramid Texts β€” Egyptian Earliest known ancient Egyptian text that concerns assisting dead spirits
2100 BC β€” The Epic of Gilgamesh β€” Sumerian Earliest surviving notable literature about a mythological king
2058 BC β€” Sumerian King List β€” Sumerian Ancient Sumerian list of city states and rulers, many with impossible reigns of thousands of years
1875 BC β€” Story of Sinuhe β€” Egyptian Considered one of the finest works in ancient Egyptian literature
1753 BC β€” Code of Hammurabi β€” Babylonian Ancient Babylonian legal text that contains many humanitarian clauses
1750 B
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1st best 4 of Shu-Han: Wei Yan, the Erwin Rommel of 3 Kingdoms

Okay here we go for the first best 4 generals of Shu kingdom founded by Liu Bei, one of warlord during late Han:

well… by my own words, he’s the β€œErwin Rommel of Three kingdoms”, the legendary WW 2 general…. both were humble origin(Rommel hailed from middle-class southerners/Bavarians, in contrast with northern aristocratic prussian german generals) climbed rly hard from low ranks, possessing dynamic tactical mind, loved by lower rank soldiers, and… more importantly… both met their tragic endings falsely accused of treason by their superiors… ok sentimental aside, save such talks for other time

Skillful martial artist & powerful fighter

Now we assessing the military quality. Conquest of Yi province was underrecorded, but by reconstructing any accounts available to later historians its safe to say that Yi campaign are the most important military operation for Shu. it was even more important Red cliff battle …if Sun Quan lose in Red Cliff, Liu Bei & co just need to β€œabandon ship” again, just like when he leave Tao Qian or Liu Biao regions. While campaign vs Liu Zhang is β€œdo or die” for Liu Bei. He gambled his credibility for this campaign as if he failed, no one in China wanna host Liu Bei & co again, since he betraying the trust of Liu Zhang.

Despite short description of the campaign record & popular belief that Liu Bei conquered Liu Zhang easily, the truth are far from easy. Liu Bei personally really fight with his life & pure bravery here, Sun Quan officer & observer of Bei campaign reported that they even suffered the loss half of his forces during the campaign & predicted Liu Bei will fail. Pang Tong fallen in battle… guess what? Years later Liu Bei overcame the difficulty &  successful. History credited 3 figures carved their names here:Wei Yan, Huang Zhong, & Fa Zheng.  Those thre rly worked their asses with Bei’s life & death in years of battles in Yi. They even captured several cities before the reinforcements from Jing arrived. Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, & Zhuge Liang only joined for the later phase of the battle as they brought fresh force from Jing province & giving final nails in the coffin.
Fa Zheng, & Huang Zhong served in command, as both has position & acknowledged even before serving Liu Bei. But Wei Yan??? This guy started under Liu Bei as foo
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SERIOUS: This subreddit needs to understand what a "dad joke" really means.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

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God Almighty= Abrahamic God and The Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth= Heaven's Will?

Just some thinking, but the Lord of the Mysteries or The Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth is adored and revered in the Western Continent (formerly known as East on Earth) And the wiki says "He" likely was active at some time in ancient China;

"" It can be speculated that "It" was active on Earth as early as the Qin or Han Dynasty of the Pre-Epoch based on the fact that "Its" Honorific Name and a corresponding ritual to enter Sefirah Castle was recorded in a book named "Quintessential Divination and Arcane Arts of the Qin and Han Dynasty", which was eventually obtained by Klein in the Modern Era. ""

We don't know to much about God Almighty but what makes me think that "He" have something to do with the Abrahamic religions or especially Christianity is the Hanged Man pathway. Don't be offended but... think about it, the Hanged Man pathway represents sacrifice and responsabilty (As Amon said and in his words) and in the Christian religion "He" sacrifice himself to save humanity. And this pathway blood and flesh are main themes. As is ritual in Christianity, "eate the flesh and drink the blood of Christ"

Just some theories about it, what do you guys think?

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I’ve got this disease where I can’t stop making airport puns.

The doctor says it terminal.

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A priest, a pastor, and a rabbit walk into a blood donation clinic.

The nurse asked the rabbit, β€œwhat is your blood type?”

β€œI am probably a type O” said the rabbit.

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Just because it's a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

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What does Communist China think about its history?

What does China today think of its former kingdoms, dynasties and famous people. About the Three Kingdoms period, figures like Sun Tzu and Confucius, Dynasties like Qin and Han

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Another round prediction

Yeah, you guys know you love speculation.

So, to clarify the theory, we have to take into account three things that involve one character: Zeus. First, he's the "main villain" (if you want to look at it that way) of the story, or at least that's how he's been handled being the one who is the president of the gods and all. Second, prior to the Buddha fight, he claims that because of a loophole in the rules, someone who has competed before can compete again. And third, he is losing most of the gods of his (Greek) pantheon.

(I clarify that the fights I propose are not in order nor I explain the powers or valkyries).

So as Zeus is the "main villain" and he is the one who said about the void of rules, I think he will fight in the final round. But how will he fight again? For that to happen one of the fights must be cancelled and that's why I think the current Hades vs Qin fight will end in a draw.

So the next fights would be like this:

- Anubis vs Rasputin, Death vs Life, they can even throw in those philosophical havocs that Shuumatsu usually does. (I think Anubis will be the winner).

- Okita Souji vs Loki, the Need to fight, since they briefly faced each other backstage in fight 5 I'm sure these two will fight in the arena. (The bad thing is I think if Okita wins, Kintoki will lose and vice versa. Since if they both win it would be like having favoritism to Japanese characters, but if you asked me, I'd rather see Kintoki win).

- Kintoki vs Beelzebub, Hunter vs Prey, talking about Kintoki, I think this would be the best fight for him considering his past as a demon hunter. (Victory would be as I explained in the previous fight).

- Apollo vs SimΓΆ Hayha, Beauty and the Beast version snipers, yes, I know. This is the least original fight but at the same time the most expected one. Everyone already wants to see SimΓΆ fight from a distance (and yes, I think SimΓΆ would win).

- Leonidas vs Susanoo, the Pride of a nation. Of all my theories this is the one I like the least, but at least I also see sense in it. Zeus would be on the ropes and promise Susanoo his pride of a god back, after the fight with his sister. Leonidas is easily the pride of Greece (I think it would be an even fight where even Susanoo would hesitate if he really wants to win, but in the end he is able to beat the Spartan).

- Odin vs Nostradamus, What true power is. This fight would necessarily have to happen after Loki and Apollo fight, the former winning and the latter losing. Odin

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My list of Heinerjar

I give you my list for the human fighters (the passing is not necessarily in this order, this is the order of how I selected them) :

  1. Boudicca (Date of birth unknown - 60/61 AD) Celtic Queen

The queen of the Celtic Iceni tribe. After her husband's death to the hand of the Roman Empire and her humiliation to the hand of Emperor Claudius, she raised an army of over 230.000 warriors with many other tribes and was responsible for the death of over 80,000 Romans.

>!She died, maybe of suicide, after the battle of Watling Street when her army was beaten by the Romans, while heavily outnumbered, they had discipline and whiped the celts.!<

She was decribed as "very tall, in appearance most terrifying, in the glance of her eye most fierce, and her voice was harsh; a great mass of the tawniest hair fell to her hips; around her neck was a large golden necklace"

I imagine some kind of feral warrior for her, kind of like Lu BΓΌ, especially when we take a look at her description by Dio Cassius, battling with a lance or a small sword and having an impressing aura.

Something interesting about her is the few number of sources about her : only two Roman historians : Dio Cassius and Tacitus, provide records of her. There is no grave, no monument, no representation, and some of their records are contradicting each other.

Her name also mean "Victory". There is also Boudicca from "The Victors Project", if you liked the Hunger Games books, you have to take a look at it.

Concept art of Boudicca

  1. Vlad ȚepeΘ™ of Wallachia (1428-31 - 1476/1477) Romanian Warlord

As a child, the young prince of Wallachia (in Romania) was sent as an hostage to the Ottoman Empire. After the fall of the Constantinople in 1453 he went back to his birthplace and took the throne by force. He mostly fought the Ottomans around 1462, escpecially during the "Night Attack at TΓ’rgoviΘ™te" where between 10,000 and 23,000 Turks were killed and impaled during one night. The numbers are variying but hundred of thousand of people died during his wars.

>!He was murdered between december 1476 and January 1477 under mysterious cirumstances, his head being sent to the sultan Mehmed II who impaled it as proof of his death!<

For his fight, maybe I am influenced by the Alucard of Hellsing but I imagine him as his Dracula form at the end of the serie. Also, if you watc

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Blind Girl Here. Give Me Your Best Blind Jokes!

Do your worst!

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I heard that by law you have to turn on your headlights when it’s raining in Sweden.

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

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Puns make me numb

Mathematical puns makes me number

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So my mom is getting her foot cut off today.. (really)

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

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Petition to ban rants from this sub

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

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French fries weren’t cooked in France.

They were cooked in Greece.

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Why does Spider-Man's calendar only have 11 months?

He lost May

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When I was a single man, I had loads of free time.

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

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You've been hit by
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My 4 year oldest favourit joke, which he very proudly memorized and told all his teachers.

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

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I'm sick of you guys posting dumb wordplay in here for awards and upvotes.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

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Dropped my best ever dad joke & no one was around to hear it

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies πŸ˜‚

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What starts with a W and ends with a T

It really does, I swear!

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My wife left me because I couldn’t stop doing impressions of pasta

And now I’m cannelloni

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Why did Karen press Ctrl+Shift+Delete?

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

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Steve JOBS would have made a better President than Donald Trump

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

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I just flew in from Chernobyl

And boy are my arms legs.

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My 7 year old daughter just told me this one. I'm so proud. What did the duck say when he bought chapstick?

Put it on my bill

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So 2 trees got arrested in the town I live...

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

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No gains
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I was almost upset that my coffee tasted like dirt today

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

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How eggs-traordinary
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What do you call a woman who’s really good at darts?

Amy

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Duckduckgo
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This subreddit is 10 years old now.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

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What does Communist China think about its history?

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