Benjamin: No, before the Qin dynasty.

本杰明：不是，在秦朝以前。

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Passenger: Was it built before the Qin dynasty?

乘客：是在秦朝之前修的吗？

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The damaged section was built by the Qin Dynasty between 220bc and 206bc.

这段被毁坏长城修建于公元前220 - 206年的秦朝。

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The first unambiguously modern state, Mr Fukuyama believes, was the Qin dynasty in China, founded in 221BC.

ECONOMIST: Theories of history

Many of the control mechanisms perfected by the Qin had developed during the preceding 500 years or so of the Eastern Zhou dynasty when a host of small warring states across China began to coalesce.

ECONOMIST: Theories of history

The Qin's extremism was also its undoing and it was soon replaced by the more enduring Han dynasty, which sought compromise with aristocratic elites and legitimation through a revived Confucianism.

ECONOMIST: Theories of history