A democracy was one of the first forms of self-rule government in ancient Greece. System and ideas used by the ancient Greeks influenced the development of democracy and helped shape the formation of the United States government. Democracy was created…
Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, was dissatisfied with his position and desired to rule for all eternity in 221 BC. He was a cruel and brutal ruler who quickly conquered neighbouring lands and established a massive empire known as China. Even after erecting so many monuments in his honour, his hunger for power remained unsatisfied. With the help of a team of 700,000 workers, he constructed a massive tomb that spanned over twenty-two square miles. The interior was created to symbolize China as a country for the king to reign after death. It boasts a large bronze imperial palace with a doomed ceiling adorned with glittering stars and 7000 statues of his terracotta army ready to go to war for serving the monarch underneath it. Each terracotta warrior is created to be one-of-a-kind. Historians from all across the world tell us how complex the moulds used to create these troops, were. Teracotta Army- What is it? There are thousands of life-size clay models of soldiers, horses, and chariots littering the hills surrounding Shi Huangdi’s grand mausoleum in Lishan, Shaanxi Province, central China. Army soldiers were probably guarding the…
