plus he started the great wall.

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Plus he started the great wall. He started his own money system, writing system, and I think a calender. 7,400 clay figures were buried with him, 6,000 of them were soldiers, 1,400 were horses, cavalry, and chariots. Each with a different face expression, height, weapon, clothing, etc. He was buried in a maze, and the top was eventually covered up by wood. After he died, a mob of rebels came to give him revenge. Almost everyone thought the soldiers were real, because it was in the dark, but one man could tell they were fake because of no movement, noise, or maybe he just thought they were all dead. So they all attacked, all through the night. That's why if you go there you there you see tons of soldiers and horses headless. but ever since they found the site in 1974, they've been reconstructing them piece by piece, just like they were thousands of years ago. Add more if you want.

Mrs.C · Answer

He is correct though just got back from China it was amazing

Mrs.C · Answer

they started it on fire to try and burn it down.

Mr.Matt · Answer

I think the history of Qin Shi Huang Di is fascinating. The extent to which he assumed his authority can be paralleled with Hitler, even to the point of megalomania. Just to elaborate on the point made about the Great Wall; the Great Wall that is well-known today was actually built in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), not by Qin Shi Huang Di. Even so, Qin Shi Huang Di did built his own wall, however, it has been primarily reduced to rubble, as it was made from pounded sturdy mud and straw in an enormous mold. In fact, before the Qin Dynasty's rise to power during the Warring States Period, most of the states had built their own 'Great Walls' to defend against enemy states. After the collapse of the Qin Dynasty, almost every dynasty built their own northern frontier wall, one most notably of the Han, whose frontier stretched into the Taklamakan Desert at a place called 'the Jade Gate'. Even so, this wall is broken and parts of it can be found scattered throughout central-northern China. I learned all this from a brilliant two part documentary called China's Great Wall.

Mr.Matt · Answer

Sorry, when I said that Qin Shi Huang Di's extent to which he assumed authority could be paralleled to Hitler, I was pinpointing the 'Burning of the Books' events that both occurred under Qin and Hitler's reign, and also their tyrannous nature. I was not at all relating the reign of Qin Shi Huang Di to Hitler's genocidal acts.

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