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The "first emperor", Qin Shihuangdi, is said to have decreed the burning of the entire corpus of historical knowledge, and murdered 460 Confucian scholars by burying them alive.
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There were more heads -- no two alike -- where the first came from, and bodies to go with them: a standing army estimated at 7,500, dedicated to the protection of Qin Shihuangdi (chin shee-hwong-dee), First Emperor of the Qin dynasty.
The Emperor's Terra-Cotta Soldiers Matthew Gurewitsch 2007
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Other archaeological window-dressing in the film includes a cave filled with terra-cotta warriors, copied from those in the tomb of China's first emperor, Shihuangdi.
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Well, the Buddha lived ca. 563-483 B.C., and the emperor Shihuangdi, whose warriors were copied for the film, ruled from 221 to 210 B.C.
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The settlement dating to the Shihuangdi reign spreads across the lands of more than 25 modern towns and villages.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Shihuangdi first unified China in 221 BC but scholars have few details of his distant conquests or how they changed the path of local histories.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Shihuangdi first unified China in 221 BC but scholars have few details of his distant conquests or how they changed the path of local histories.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The settlement dating to the Shihuangdi reign spreads across the lands of more than 25 modern towns and villages.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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The settlement dating to the Shihuangdi reign spreads across the lands of more than 25 modern towns and villages.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Shihuangdi first unified China in 221 BC but scholars have few details of his distant conquests or how they changed the path of local histories.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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