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Qin Shuangdi is today considered one of the most important emperors
of the China’s history. He built many things that today became symbols
of China.
First of all, let’s talk about China itself. Today China is the 4th biggest
country in the world, and the most populated one, until 1912, when the
emperor stepped back and left the work to the republic, before this
event, China was behind the rest of the world, sometimes it was good,
sometimes bad.
Qin Shuangdi was the founder of the Qin dynasty and the only emperor
ruling it, this is why Qin lasted only 15 years, but that 15 years changed
the history of China.
Qin was born on February 18th, 259 BC, in Handan, China, 450
kilometers south of Beijing. He was the first emperor of China from 220
BC to the 10th of september 210 BC, when he sadly died. He was first
the king of Qin, from the 7th of May 247, to the year 220 BC, when he
unified China. During the warring states periods, when there were
many states that fighted against each other for ruling China, Qin was
the biggest, most cruel and strongest state of China, this is why after
around 30 years of fights, Qin made it to the top of its power.
Of course, when a powerful person takes the power, many
conspiracies to kill him happen, the closest one to kill him, was just at
the end of the warring states period, from the last opponent
remaining, Yan. A man his name was Yin Kur. He put in a knife in the
map, that he had to donate to Qin, a knife, that he had to throw at the
king when he got close enough.
The guards let him pass without checking the map, and when he sat at
a table in front of him, he started to open the map slowly, and when at
the end he reached the knife, he shouted, the knife was a few
centimeters away to heat his head. When he missed, Qin got the knife
and killed the man.
Qin Shuangdi protected both his state and China very well from their
opponents, the Mongolians, who always tried to attack them. This is
why Qin had the great idea to make one of China’s biggest symbols, the
Great Wall. There are many debatable and secret things that surround
this story, but one is sure, one billion people died for building it, that is
like the population of New Orleans! Even if the great wall finished
constructing in the Ming dynasty, Qin had a great impact on it, slaves
worked a lot for building it, and if anyone refused, they were killed or
executed. There was a big problem, the filling of the Great Wall, Qin
decided that all the dead people will be used as filling of the wall with
sand. That made Qin’s figure really more evil and dishonest with his
people. Today, you can go still look and visit some parts of the wall
who remained intact.
Qin Shuangdi was a really powerful man, but like everyone he had a
bigger fear than other ones, death, the inevitable thing, but after
unifying China, I thinked that anything can be avoided, even the
unavoidable. He was so addicted with this fear that instead of going
slowly away, his fear got bigger and bigger. I got the idea of a potion, a
potion that could save him from death and from anything that could
hurt him. Every scientist from China had to come and show he’s potion
against death, and Qin had to taste all of them. The one that he found
more efficient was Mercury, with it’s weird properties., he liked it so
much that in his tomb he had mercury rivers.
If Qin Shuangdi had to avoid death, he needed a place to live into, a
really amazing palace, where he could live after his death. He had the
idea of making a pyramid with other buildings around it, in the
buildings around there were endless tunnels and some rooms with his
famous “guards”. Inside the main building there was a beautiful
garden, with trees, fake birds, flowers and mercury rivers.
He is really well known for his “guards”, really special guards, made
out of terracotta, the Terracotta army. They were made for his tomb, to
protect him after his death. Every artist from China came to copy some
real people, horses and chariots, all the statues together reach a count
of 8000! Only in 1970 explorers found the terracotta army and made a
huge museum in Xi’an, were most of them are stored.
Unfortunately, when he was 49 he died because of his best elixir,
mercury. That made lot of rebellion and chaos, many people were
trying to get to the throne, for have power and money. But the worst
thing that happened was that the people got into the tomb and started
to steal gems, get money and goods, and even worst, destroy the
terracotta army, who made the scientists do their job way harder and
difficult. Today we can’t get into the death chamber because of the
light, there is still color, but if the light gets inside, the color will fade
away.
Now, let’s think about the hardest question, was Qin Shuangdi a
terrible tyrant or a great ruler. He could be a great ruler because he
unified China in the warring states and then protected it, by building
the great wall, that many people dedicated their lives to, and is even
true that many other people died by building his tomb and making his
guards. The sides overlap each other a lot, but I think that Qin
Shuangdi, king of Qin and emperor of China, is a terrible and cruel
tyrant.