In 221 B.C., Ying Zheng, ruler of the State of Qin and a man of ... multi-ethnic feudal state in Chinese history — the Qin Dynasty (221-206 B.C.). He called himself Qin Shi Huang or "First ...

Because of his tyranny and excessive tax collections the Qin Dynasty ended soon after his ... had no children to be buried alive with the dead ruler. In order to prevent disclosure of secrets ...

Accordingly, while Qin Shi Huang was the first ruler to unify China, it was the Han dynasty founded by Liu Bang that established a stable imperial polity that normalized the concept of a single ...

The monochrome figures that visitors to Xian’s terra-cotta army museum see today actually began as the multicolored fantasy of a ruler whose ... under a single dynasty, Qin Shi Huang Di packed ...

The geological conditions pose both advantages and challenges for the grottoes. For example, the sandstone of the mountains ...

The sacrificial practices at the Xiazhan ruins site were established in the fourth year of Duke Xuan of Qin's reign and continued until their abolition in the late Western Han Dynasty, spanning ...