China

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Chinas First Emperor
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Achievements

• One of the things he did during his lifetime was
  unify China., He and his chief adviser Li Si
  passed a series of major reforms meant to
  preserve unification. Together, they undertook
  gigantic projects, including the first version of
  the current Great wall of China, the now famous
  city-sized mauslom guarded by a life-sized
  Terracotta army, and a massive national road
  system, all at the expense of many lives.

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Facts

• He was known now as Qin Shi Huang Chinese ???
  pinyin Qín Shi Huáng.
• He was the son of King Zhuangxiang, the ruler of
  the State of Qin. He was born in Handan, the
  capital of the state of Zhao. His name was Ying
  Zheng. When Qin Shi Huang was 13 years old, King
  Zhuangxiang was dead and he succeded to the
  throne. Lu Buwei, originally a merchant, became
  the new prime minister of Qin.

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How he changed China

• Qin Shi Huang changed china in many ways some of
  these ways was the building of the Terra Cotta
  soldiers and the Great Wall of China. Emperor Qin
  Shi Huang was a man of remarkable talents and
  achievements. His military conquests were in
  part the result of a superb mastery of the newest
  arts of war. He abolished the system of feudal
  enfoeffment and created a form of centralized,
  autocratic government, which was maintained in
  essence to the fall of the last (Qing) Dynasty in
  the early 20th century. He changed the written
  language and the axle length of wagons and
  chariots. He built a vast network of tree-lined
  roads so paces wide, radiating from the Qin
  capital, Xianyang, 20 kilometers northwest of
  Xian. He joined into a single 3,000 kilometer
  Great Wall (extended to 6,000 kilometers during
  later dynasties) the separate walls erected by
  the earlier northern states to deter the raiding
  nomadic tribes

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The Terracotta soldiers

• The Terracotta figures, dating from 210 bc, were
  discovered in 1974 by several local farmers near
  Xian, Shaanxi province, China near the Mausoleum
  of the First Qin Emperor. The figures vary in
  height (183195cm - 6ft6ft 5in), according to
  their role, the tallest being the Generals. The
  figures include warriors, chariots, horses,
  officials, acrobats, strongmen, and musicians.
  Current estimates are that in the three pits
  containing the Terracotta Army there were over
  8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses and
  150 cavalry horses, the majority of which are
  still buried in the pits.

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The Great Wall of China
The Great Wall stretches over approximately 6,400
km (4,000 miles) from Shanhaiguan in the east to
Lop Nur in the west, along an arc that roughly
delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia,
but stretches to over 6,700 km (4,160 miles) in
total. At its peak, the Ming Wall was guarded by
more than one million men. It has been estimated
that somewhere in the range of 2 to 3 million
Chinese died as part of the centuries-long
project of building the wall.
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The Qin Dynasty

• The Qin came to power in 221 B.C. They were one
  of the western states that existed during the
  Warring States Period. They conquered the other
  Warring states, unifying China for the first
  time. Their leader named himself the First
  Emperor, or Shi huangdi, thus beginning the
  tradition of having emperors for rulers. The Qin,
  while not the most culturally advanced of the
  Warring States was militarily the strongest. They
  utilized many new technologies in warfare,
  especially cavalry. The Qin are sometimes called
  the Ch'in, which is probably where the name China
  originated

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The death of Qin Shi Huang

• In July of 210 BC a grand procession started out
  from Pingxiang (in todays Hebei province) and
  began moving slowly toward Xianyang. the capital
  city north of todays Xian. It was a royal
  entourage. accompanied by eunuchs and guarded by
  many soldiers.The centre of all this pomp was an
  elaborate closed chariot. Court retainers
  periodically took food to it and brought back
  orders. But the chariots sole occupant would
  never eat or issue orders again - it was the body
  of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. who had been ill and
  had died. The ruse was part of a plot by high
  officials to delay discovery of his death so that
  they could take power.

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The tomb of emperor Qin Shi Huang

• Located at the foot of the Lishan (Mount Li) lies
  the tomb of China's first EmperorQin
  Shihuangwhom the Terracotta soldiers were built
  to protect in the afterlife. legend has it that
  the tomb was originally decorated with vast
  amounts of gold, silver and pearls, and that
  ornate maps of the empire were carved into the
  floors complete with rivers of flowing mercury.
  The history is clouded by the apparent fact that
  all the artisans who built the tomb were buried
  alive upon its completion however, recent digs
  have found walls and watchtowers of a large
  underground complex that corresponds roughly to
  the apocryphal record, and spot test on local
  soil have turned up unusually high levels of
  mercury. Given the extravagance of the Terracotta
  Warriors, only discovered in 1974, it's not hard
  to believe that more wonders from Qin's reign and
  obsession with his own death and imagined
  afterlife await.

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Bibliography

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Shi_Huang
• http//simple.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chinese_History/H
  istory_of_Qin_Dynasty/The_First_Emperor_of_China
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army
• http//www.chinatravel.net/attractions/Emperor-Qin
  -Shihuang-s-Tomb-Xi-an/125.html