In 221 BCE, King Ying Zheng of Qin conquered the rival warring states and established the Qin empire as Qin Shi Huangdi (The ...

Because of his tyranny and excessive tax collections the Qin Dynasty ended soon after his death. Portrait of Emperor Qinshihuang As the first huge ancient mausoleum in China, with a river in front ...

multi-ethnic feudal state in Chinese history — the Qin Dynasty (221-206 B.C.). He called himself Qin Shi Huang or "First Emperor of Qin." He standardized the written script, weights and measures ...

According to writings of court historian Siam Qian during the following Han dynasty, Qin ordered the mausoleum's construction shortly after taking the throne. More than 700,000 laborers worked on ...

A newly discovered rectangular chariot and horse pit in Baoji, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province has provided key evidence that the Qin state had already established a tradition of chariot and horse ...

Liu Bang came from humble stock. A patrolman-turned-guerilla, he led his Pei County militia in the revolt that defeated the unpopular Qin Dynasty. In its wake, defacto rebel leader General Xiang ...

Zhao Gao, a high-ranking official of the Qin Dynasty (221-206 B.C.), gifted the emperor with a deer, insisting it was a horse. Laughing, the amused emperor asked his entourage what they thought.

and a young king who later becomes the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty in war-ravaged China. The series has been running in the Weekly Young Jump comic anthology since 2006. It has spawned anime ...