One kingdom of this name sent troops south through mountains on the Stone Cattle Road after promising their hapless opponents that they would use the trail to deliver cows made of stone that defecated gold.
One kingdom of this name sent troops south through mountains on the Stone Cattle Road after promising their hapless opponents that they would use the trail to deliver cows made of stone that defecated gold. A later polity known by this name adopted black flags and black armor after a declaration that it was "ruled by the power of water;" that polity featured a court purge after its leader and several officials refused to call a deer a horse, and built a roadway system encompassing the Ordos Loop under general Meng Tian. This state built the Min river's Dujiangyan irrigation facility, and Huhai of this dynasty was forced to kill himself by the eunuch Zhao Gao. The dynasty of this name standardized "small-seal script" among the mandates of Han Fei and Li Si, two unrepentant Legalists, and lost its founder to mercury poisoining. For 10 points, name this state which burned the books after coming out on top in the Warring States period, declaring itself a dynasty under the immortality- seeking Shi Huangdi.
One kingdom of this name sent troops south through mountains on the Stone Cattle Road after promising their hapless opponents that they would use the trail to deliver cows made of stone that defecated gold.
{Qin} dynasty [the Q is approximately the “ch” sound in English; DO NOT ACCEPT “Qing”]