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Two men hid among the bushes along the emperor's route over a mountain. At a signal, the muscular assassin hurled the cone at the first carriage and shattered it.

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He sold all his valuables and in 218 BC, he hired a strongman assassin and built him a heavy metal cone weighing 120 jin (roughly 160 lb or 97 kg).

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In 230 BC, the state of Qin had defeated the state of Han. A Han aristocrat named Zhang Liang swore revenge on the Qin emperor.

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However, the emperor was actually in the second carriage, as he was travelling with two identical carriages for this very reason. Thus the attempt failed. Both men were able to escape in spite of a huge manhunt

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His 2 sons were named Fu Su and Hu Hai.

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In order to consolidate the nascent empire, Qin Shi Huang reformed politics, economy and culture. In politics, he abolished the hereditary vassal enfeoffment system and established prefectures and counties, ruled directly by the emperor.

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Ying Zheng realised his ambition and built the first feudal and centralised empire in Chinese history in 221 BC. This was what we called - the Qin Dynasty (221 BC - 206 BC). Ying Zheng was the first emperor of a united China, so he proclaimed himself Qin Shi Huang.

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He wanted to unify and subjugate all the states like Han, Zhao, Wei, Chu, Yan and Qi by the powerful political, economic and military strength of the Qin State.

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Ying Zheng was very aggressive and ambitious at an early age. He assumed full power at 22 by ridding himself of his premier, Lu Buwei, who acted as regent while he was a minor.

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Qin Shi Huang, born as Ying Zheng in 259 BC, was the son of the king of the Qin State. At the age of thirteen, he succeeded his father's regality.

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He was a megalomaniac and was crazy as he got older

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They even had blast furnaces at the time to make tools and weapons

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He believed he could live forever in his tomb and there were lakes and rivers of mercury. Peasants got into the tomb, stole the steel weapons and burnt the roof down. He would not tolerate criticism

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Common system of weights and measures, COINAGE

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He regulated cart axle widths as well and constructed a lot of things because he liked building.

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Qin also means China and he was born in China and was hated by a lot of people because he burnt all the scholars books AND if the scholars didn't bring the books he would kill them then bury them.

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His tomb was guarded by Terracotta warriors.

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he had 4 sons, 7 daughters and a grandfather. He was the first Chinese Emperor at 221 BC. He as in the clan of the Qin and built the Great wall of china. He invaded other states and united china.

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In carrying out their plans, they caused enormous misery and destruction, but they built up a lot of infrastructure such as roads, canals, and the Great Wall that benefited later people. There was a standardised written language for the whole empire that was promulgated by Li Si.

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It is thought that the population dropped from about 40 million at the end of the Zhou Dynasty era to about 18 million around the end of their reign.

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The Qin Dynasty reigned for only 15 years and ended in suicide and death. But during their short reign starting from their wars for conquests, they destroyed more than half of the population and much of the culture, literature and scholarship of the Zhou era.

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This writing system became the common literary language for the whole region afterwards until the modern era. By standardising even the writing and the ideas and customs and religion, they laid the foundation for later empires.

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he managed to create magnificent and enormous construction projects . He also caused both incredible cultural and intellectual growth , and much destruction within China .

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Who was Qin Shi Huangdi? He was a chinese emperor

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Who was Qin Shi Huangdi? He was a chinese emperor

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What did he do for China?