Thursday, August 16, 2007

The First Emperor The Man Who Made China ( Qin Shi Huang)

still in draft form
6000 soldiers made by ceramic
map of great wall of china
Both pic above taken from republicanchina


picture of great wall by Robert Jacobsen


website to show how china is form http://www.artsmia.org/art-of-asia/history/chin-dynasty-map.cfm

I learn about this man in the documentary title above
Source from wikipediaThe monarch known now as Qin Shi Huang , was king of the Chinese State of Qin from to (officially still under the Zhou Dynasty), and then the first emperor of a unified from 221 BCE to 210 BCE, ruling under the name the First Emperor (Shǐ Huáng Dì). As ruler, he was known for the introduction of Legalism and also for unifying China.

He undertook gigantic projects Great Wall of China, a city-sized mausoleum guarded by a life-sized Terracotta army, and a massive national road system, at the expense of numerous human lives. To ensure stability, he outlawed Confucianism and buried many of its scholars alive, banning and burning all books other than those officially decreed.

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