Qin Shi Huang had work on his enormous mausoleum started early in his reign. The terracotta warriors of the “underground army” guarding the mausoleum, unearthed in 1974, amazed the world.
The statue, discovered at the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the Qin dynasty, under which China was unified after centuries of political turmoil, is the first of its kind to be ...
He was called Qin Shi Huang or "First Emperor of Qin." He standardized the written script, weights and measures, and currency, and established the system of prefectures and counties. The ...