China's First Reunification & the Terracotta Warriors

A History of Mankind (176)

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In 221 BC, the year in which the First Emperor unified China and Hannibal took over from Hasdrubal, the Americas had two urbanized cultural cores with advanced societies quickly setting themselves further apart from the hunter-gatherers still predominant across much of the continent: one in the Mexican highlands and the Yucatan region where the Mayas would soon become a distinct culture, and the other in the Peruvian highlands.