People thought of Shi Huangdi in many different ways. Some people thought of him as an amazing ruler and others thought of him as a disgrace to china and a horrible man. The people that thought he was a great ruler were the people that were apart of the Qin Dynasty that worked for him. The people that did not like him were mainly the people who built the Great Wall of China and the other people who did not like him were apart of the Dynasties that were conquered by the Qin Dynasty. This is a quote from one of emperor Shi Huangdi’s imperial edict. “In the twenty-sixth year of his reign [221 BCE], the Emperor unified all the lands under heaven, brought peace to people, and mounted the throne as Emperor. [He] ordered the prime minister to …show more content…
This quote is from a Confucian scholar of the third century BCE. “The Qin rulers employ their people harshly, terrorise them with authority, embitter them with hardship, bribe then rewards, and destroy them with punishments.” This shows that he does not like Shi Huangdi. I think that the quote from the Confucian Scholar is more truthful than the quote from the Imperial Edict as the Scholar did not work for Shi Huangdi so he had nothing to loose. Where as the Imperial Edict was ruthless and wanted to keep his job. Shi Huangdi’s victory combined a country that had been split up by war between the rival kingdoms for 260 years. The new emperor built his massive palace within a enclosed complex at that capital of Xianyang. There was also the place of some 270 feudal …show more content…
His mother wanted him dead as she wanted her other children to be Emperor. At the age of 22 he found out about this and killed her and all her lovers. At the age of 13 he decided to start building a death place for him once he died so that he had a nice place to die. He had thousands of Trachoma warriors built each human size with completely different faces on each warrior. The Idea of the Trachoma Warriors was to protect/guard his tomb. The tomb was built over a mercury river as he believed that it would and had given him immortality. Research showed that before Qin's wall (The Great Wall of China), the six ducal states had already built their own walls to prevent attacks from each other and the Huns. The Huns from the north were constantly a threat, often coming from the Yellow River Basin taking land from people in the Hetao Area. The Emperor commanded General Meng Tian, commanding 300,000 soldiers, to defeat the enemy force. To prevent further attacks by the Huns, he decided to make the Great Wall Stronger and extend the Great Wall of China. The Great Wall of China represented a gigantic dragon, starting at Lintao in the west to Liaodong in the east. Therefore it was named 'Wanli Changcheng' (Ten Thousand Li Great Wall). In 350BCE the Qin Dynasty found Iron. By Gaining iron they were able to advance their battle techniques by creating iron weaponry such as swords and arrow heads. Emperors Shi Huangdi ‘s chief of