In 221 BC, Ying Zheng, first emperor of the Qin Dynasty, put an end to the 250-odd years of rivalry among the independent principalities during the Warring States Period, and established the first ...

Because of his tyranny and excessive tax collections the Qin Dynasty ended soon after his death. Portrait of Emperor Qinshihuang As the first huge ancient mausoleum in China, with a river in front ...

The terra-cotta army, as it is known, is part of an elaborate mausoleum created to accompany the first emperor of China ... during the following Han dynasty, Qin ordered the mausoleum's ...

No doubt thousands of statues still remain to be unearthed at this archaeological site, which was not discovered until 1974. Qin (d. 210 B.C.), the first unifier of China, is buried, surrounded by the ...

Qin Shi Huangdi, or the First Emperor of Qin, is usually credited with the unification of China. However, the Qin Dynasty collapsed within a couple of years of his death, and China fell into ...

The first emperor to unify China under a single dynasty, Qin Shi Huang Di packed a lot into his earthly reign, from 221 to 210 B.C.Aside from building the first lengths of the Great Wall ...

Like almost every country, especially those spanning vast territories, China went through a unification process that culminated during the reign of the Qin dynasty, in the era known as the Warring ...