Qin Shi Huang

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Qin Shi Huang (or Qin Shi Huangdi) (259-210 BC) was the King of Qin who unified China at the end of the Warring States Period and is remembered as the first ruler of the unified empire - he adopted the style of emperor in 221 BC. He is remembered by history as an absolute and megalomaniacal ruler, who had 460 leading scholars buried alive, and in 213 BC ordered the burning of all books on literature and philosophy on pain of enslavement. This act was part of an attempt to destroy Confucianism and the feudal system: he was more successful in the latter aim than the former. He ordered substantial stretches of the Great Wall of China to be built.

On his death, Qin Shi Huang was buried in an underground mausoleum, supposedly of great opulence and ingenuity, near the city of Xi'an; it has yet to be excavated. However, the Terracotta Army of life-sized model soldiers which guards the tomb has been partially excavated and is one of China's major tourist attractions.

Qin Shi Huang founded the Qin dynasty, which, however, lasted onl;y a year after his death.