The impact of the hereditary system on history

The hereditary system was a system of passing down emperorships and titles from generation to generation in slave and feudal societies, which appeared in place of the original system of chancellorship.

Benefits for later regimes: ① favorable to the unification of the country, the initial laying of the motherland's boundaries and the formation of the Chinese nation, have played an important role; ② conducive to the development of the feudal economy; ③ the establishment of the landowning class of the tyrannical rule of the majority of the working people, the Qin's tyranny caused the deterioration of the situation of the people. Impact on future generations: the Qin dynasty established a centralized autocratic political system is very pioneering, it laid the basic pattern of China's feudal political system for more than 2,000 years, for the successive generations of feudal dynasties used, and constantly strengthened and improved. Disadvantages of the hereditary throne system: The traditional principle of succession to the throne in Chinese history could not guarantee the optimization of the quality of the emperor and the nobility of the emperor because the successor was chosen within a narrow hereditary range. The chosen emperors were full of young children, idiots, prodigal sons, and mediocre people, whose woes

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This is the first time in Chinese history that an emperor has been elected.