King Ying Zheng (Qin Shing) unified the warring states of China and became the First Emperor or Emperor Ch'in (Qin) in 221 BCE. This ruler commissioned the gigantic terracotta army and subterranean palace/mortuary complex found, via pottery sherds, by farmers digging in their fields, two millennia later, during the tenure of one his greatest admirers, Chairman Mao.
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