This defeat signaled the end of the Qin Dynasty. Whether Qin Shi Huang should be remembered more for his monumental creations and cultural advances or his brutal tyranny is a matter of dispute. All scholars agree, however, that Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of the Qin Dynasty and a unified China, was one of the most important rulers in Chinese history.
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She has taught at the high school and university levels in the U. Updated February 17, Featured Video. View Article Sources. Cite this Article Format. Szczepanski, Kallie. Periods and Dynasties of Ancient China. Accomplishments of the Ancient Chinese. People's Republic of China Facts and History.
What Is China's Mandate of Heaven? Your Privacy Rights. To change or withdraw your consent choices for ThoughtCo. In many ways - climate, lifestyle, diet - someone from northern Scotland and southern Spain have as much in common as someone from China's frozen north and the tropical south. Before Qin, China's multiple states were diverging, rather than converging, says Bol.
He was king of the small state of Qin by the age of 13, and started as he meant to go on - removing one possible threat to his throne by having his mother's lover executed, along with his entire clan. A hundred years later the famous historian Sima Qian said of the young king:. When he is in difficulty he readily humbles himself before others, but when he has got his way, then he thinks nothing of eating others alive.
Qin Shi Huang built a formidable fighting machine. His army is easy to imagine because he left us the famous terracotta warriors in Xian. One by one, Qin Shi Huang defeated neighbouring states, swallowed their territory into his growing empire and enslaved and castrated their citizens.
He was a ruthless tyrant. And you've got one man ruling all of it. Peter Bol credits Qin Shi Huang not only with creating China, but with establishing the world's first truly centralised bureaucratic empire. And the fact that Chinese writing remains unified after this point has everything to do with Qin Shi Huang. The axle widths are now all the same, so all the roads may now be passable. The people all knew what the rules were," says Wood. I think that's an extraordinary achievement. Despite this, it is the stories of his bloodletting that historian Xun Zhou grew up with.
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