Who is Qin Shihuangdi?
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- pronunciation is chin-shoe-hwang-di
- first emperor of the Qin dynasty in 221 B.C.E
- died in 210 B.C.E.
- was placed in a fancy underground palace with an entire army of life-size pottery figures to protect him through his death.
- first emperor of the Qin dynasty in 221 B.C.E
- died in 210 B.C.E.
- was placed in a fancy underground palace with an entire army of life-size pottery figures to protect him through his death.
What is the Qin dynasty?
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What did Qin Shihuangd do?
- disarmed regional military forces
- destroyed fortresses that might become points of rebellion or resistance
- built roads to make communication easier and moving armies
- ordered workers to link existing sections of walls of defense into one massive wall (The Great Wall of China)
- ordered executions for those who criticized him
- demanded the burning of all books of philosophy, ethics, history, and literature
- allowed works on medicine, fortune-telling, and agriculture
- sentenced about 460 scholars living in the capital to be buried alive for criticizing his system
- standardized the laws, currencies, weights, and measures
- Chinese script
- destroyed fortresses that might become points of rebellion or resistance
- built roads to make communication easier and moving armies
- ordered workers to link existing sections of walls of defense into one massive wall (The Great Wall of China)
- ordered executions for those who criticized him
- demanded the burning of all books of philosophy, ethics, history, and literature
- allowed works on medicine, fortune-telling, and agriculture
- sentenced about 460 scholars living in the capital to be buried alive for criticizing his system
- standardized the laws, currencies, weights, and measures
- Chinese script
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