Ying Zheng was born in 259 B.C. When he was 13, he was the king of the state of Qin in 246 B.C. He started a series of wars for the sake of unifying the country in 238 B.C. In 230 B.C, He defeated the state of Han. After ten years of time, he defeated the last remaining state, Qi, in 221 B.C. Later on, he established the Qin Dynasty, which made him the first one to unify the nation in the history of China. Afterwards, he made himself the highest ruler and claimed himself as "Huang-Di" which is emperor in Chinese. Some historians praise Qin Shihuang for his achievement during his time. Some historians criticize him for his cruelty and some questionable decisions.
For his achievements, he established the system of prefectures and divided the entire nation into 36 prefectures. Moreover, he unified laws, weights …show more content…
Sometimes they even had to work under extreme weather conditions. In the days, they had to work under the burning sun without any shades. Sometimes, there were rainstorms and thunderstorms. The laborers had nowhere to hide, so they just simply had to stand in the wind and rain, hoping the dazzling flashes would not shot them. During the winters, the wind blew up all the dusts to their eyes. The cold weather froze their cheeks and ears. Some of them were freeze to death during snowstorms. The world-famous ten-thousand ii Great Wall was actually built with the blood and sweat of those hundred thousand of workers. However, Qin Shihuang did not have any sympathy for his workers. He tortured those laborers who worked too slow or tried to escape. He did not care about their working conditions, he just wanted to have the Great Wall done as soon as