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Asked by Sebastien Snider from America | May. 17, 2016 23:10
About:Qin Dynasty

Why did Qin burn books and bury scholars alive?

Doing this would bring a downfall in education, numbering how many learned to write. I know he did believe that people shouldn't think for themselves, but that brought a bad fall to the economy, representing a terrible act ask emperor.

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Answered by Emily from Canada | May. 18, 2016 21:07
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As I know, books advocating Confucianism were burnt and Confucian scholars were buried alive.
Before the establishment of this state, Confucianism was respected by most scholars. But the new policies implemented by government were conflicted to this school so that triggered massively objection. Qin was a state that advocated force. In order to consolidate the sovereign, emperor ordered to solve the problem in this cruel way.
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