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served a strong central monarch. Following a brutal succession crisis and relocation of the royal capital, the power of the Zhou kings () waned, and during the Eastern Zhou period, the regional lords overshadowed the king and began to usurp that title for themselves. In 221 BC, after the King of Qin completed the conquest of the various kingdoms of the Warring States period, he adopted

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