Major Accomplishments
The most famous achievement of the Qin is building 1,500 miles of the Great Wall of China. They were the first to build it, under the orders of Chin Shi. Another amazing accomplishment is the building of over 7,000 terracotta soldiers to accompany emporer Qin Shi Huang into the afterlife, seeing as the . Emperor Qin was afraid of death , so he created this army to protect him in the afterlife. None of these soldiers were found to be exactly the same---different. Although harsh, the Qin dynasty created a unique government system called Legalism which is mentioned throughout this website. This dynasty burned many books that might be used against them and their government, which was later replicated by the Nazis. As another major accomplishment, they also invented the writing style called calligraphy, so beautiful and elegant.