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Qin Shi Huang Di Qin Shi Huang Di is the most famous of all of the Chinese emperors. He had the greatest and longest lasting effect on China, ruling from 221 BCE to 206 BCE, during the Qin dynasty.

Qin became king of his state at the age of 13, and by 38 he had united the states in his area creating the first unified China. (The name “China” comes from Qin’s name)

Set standards were made for writing, weights and measurements, money, the law, and all parts of the country had to adapt.

Roads and canals were built throughout the country to provide means of transportation.

The Grand Canal The Grand Canal is the world’s longest and oldest human made canal system.

It is 1795 km long, and has 24 locks and sixty bridges.

It is used to move goods to and from markets across China.

The canal stretches from Hangzhou, to Tianjin, to Beijing.

The Great Wall of China The Great Wall of China is the only man made structure that can be seen from space.

It is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

The wall stretches approximately 6700 km across deserts, mountains, and grasslands in China.

The walls are around twelve meters high, and there are hundreds of watchtowers built along it.

The wall is over 2000 years old; each of the separated rival states defeated by Qin had built some form of wall as defence. Qin joined together and built some new sections, into the Great Wall.

The wall took nearly one million people to build. Many of the workers who died were enclosed in the wall.

Terracotta Soldiers Terracotta is hard red-brown earthenware that is commonly crafted into vessels.

Two thousand have been found and archaeologists believe that there are six thousand more to be found. The whole burial ground of Qin Shi Huang Di took thirty-nine years to build and workers.

Inside of a tomb dedicated to Qin Shi Huang Di, thousands of life-sized terracotta statues were found.