Shi Huangdi Research Paper
Imagine this, you’re a peasant or a criminal and you were forced to work on the Great Wall of China, or work on Shi Huangdi’s tomb! By being forced to do that your chances of dying are very high! Heres some background of this emperor. “At age 13, Ying Zheng became leader of the Chinese state of Qin. The young 13 year old leader brought down the Qins six states that were in war together battling it out”(Journey Across Time, pg 243). Now you may think that he's a good emperor but trust me he's isn't. But since you're not convinced yet here's the 3 reasons why I think Shi Huangdi is a Terrible Emperor.
If you were one of Shi Huangdi's workers then you would be very unlucky. Shi Huangdi is kinda selfish because he just doesn't really care about his people! What would you feel if you were building that wall or tomb and getting treated terribly without much food or water. He cares about himself he doesn't care for the people who were forced to build the Great Wall of China, Shi Huangdi just didn’t really care about the workers.That let 400,000 men to be buried in the wall because of starvation, hard labor, and dehydration. He also didn’t really care about those workers that was building his tomb! Almost 700,000 men had to work on his tomb! But he built the wall to protect his people from the barbarians. But he got lots of …show more content…
There were 3 attempts to kill Shi Huangdi. There shouldn't be 3 attempts to kill Shi Huangdi because an emperor is an important part of the civilization of Qin. People wanted to kill him because he spent lots of materials and money on his tomb and the Great Wall of China. And even more money to build realistic clay soldiers in his tomb he made workers build 6,000 realistic sculptures of soldiers,Shi Huangdi also built palaces for himself or for the nobles (Journey Across Time,pg
If you were one of Shi Huangdi's workers then you would be very unlucky. Shi Huangdi is kinda selfish because he just doesn't really care about his people! What would you feel if you were building that wall or tomb and getting treated terribly without much food or water. He cares about himself he doesn't care for the people who were forced to build the Great Wall of China, Shi Huangdi just didn’t really care about the workers.That let 400,000 men to be buried in the wall because of starvation, hard labor, and dehydration. He also didn’t really care about those workers that was building his tomb! Almost 700,000 men had to work on his tomb! But he built the wall to protect his people from the barbarians. But he got lots of …show more content…
There were 3 attempts to kill Shi Huangdi. There shouldn't be 3 attempts to kill Shi Huangdi because an emperor is an important part of the civilization of Qin. People wanted to kill him because he spent lots of materials and money on his tomb and the Great Wall of China. And even more money to build realistic clay soldiers in his tomb he made workers build 6,000 realistic sculptures of soldiers,Shi Huangdi also built palaces for himself or for the nobles (Journey Across Time,pg