2.  Lasted from 221 to 206 BC  Used bureaucracy to form government  Emperor: Qin Shihuangdi  First centralized Chinese government

3.  Ended the Warring States Period in China  Home of the Terra-Cotta Warrior  Located in North-Eastern China  The Qin build the great wall of China

4.  Modeled after the Qin Dynasty’s army  The Terra-Cotta Army is a group of stone statues  There are over 7,000 human statues, and about 4,000 stone horses.  Discovered in 1974  In the yellow river valley  Created to show power

5.  The Qin Emperor rejected Confucius thinking  Burned Confucius texts and writings  Taoism and Buddhism had not yet developed  The Qin Dynasty embraced a governmental philosophy called Legalism

6.  Qin was in full development from 476 to 221 B.C.  Qin created a centralized bureaucratic government  The dynasty was broken into several states, Han, Zhao, Wei, Yan, Chu, and Qi. Each state used its own aristocratic system. 230-221 B.C.

7.  Three assassination attempts upon emperor Qin  Qin died in 210 B.C. even though he was obsessed with life.  It fell in 207 B.C. defeated by Xiang Yu