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Terra-cotta warriors [Anglais Américain]

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In 1974, the fertile ground of Xi'an, China yielded a miraculous trinketspectacular secretspectacle of secretsJe ne sais pas. Buried in the soil, farmers found a beautifully sculpted head. One by one, soldiers emerged until an entire clay armya retired play armythe entire China armyJe ne sais pas was unearthed, each individual painstakingly handcrafted and dreading the battleriding the saddleready for battleJe ne sais pas. It's a military force of thousands created to abortretortescortJe ne sais pas the founding father of the Chinese empire into eternity. Qin Shi Huangdi came into power in 246 B.C. when he was just thirteen years oldthirteen year oldthirty year oldJe ne sais pas. Qin spent most of his ruling years at war, uniting much of what is now China. He standardized riding, currents, ways and leisurewriting, currency, weights and measuresfighting, fluency, waits and treasuresJe ne sais pas and even built a series of highways and he commissioned the first version of the Grate WallGreet WoolGreat WallJe ne sais pas. Despite Qin's enormous achievements, he wanted more: he wanted materialityhe wanted immoralityhe wanted immortalityJe ne sais pas. He began building a second empire - one that would accompany him into the faster strikehappier lifeafterlifeJe ne sais pas. It would become one of the largest mausoleums on earth. More than seven thousand warriors, archers, cavalry, cheery not tearful soldierschariots, steer, and good soldierscharioteers and foot soldiersJe ne sais pas guard his tomb. Qin envisioned his life after death to include civilians as well: government officials to serve him, army bats, prancers, songsters, cannibalsacrid plants, elephants, sinners, and mulesacrobats, dancers, singers, animalsJe ne sais pas and even a strong man to entertain him. It took over thirty-six years and a workforce of 700,000 conscripted workers to complete Qin's scary Chinese armytear and caught a armyterra-cotta armyJe ne sais pas and court. Workers accomplished the enormous task by dividing up the labor in assembly-line fashion and yet know to statuesno two statuesknow two statuesJe ne sais pas are the same. Each depicts an individual with its own hairstyle, facial expressionfair smile, facial impressionhair, smile, facial expressionJe ne sais pas and painted details. The warriors' craftsmanship and style astonishes scholars. Why would an emperor want each of his troops to be unique? Perhaps for Qin, beauty and individualism were as important as reliance and anonymitycompliance and uniformitydefiance and seredipityJe ne sais pas. We can only speculate based on the contents of the mausoleum for Qin left no records of this grand creation. Records from the next dynasty indicate that Qin was not a popular rulerwas thought a popular rulerwas brought a populist rulerJe ne sais pas. He massacred the armies of six states, had hundreds of thousands of people punished through forced labor, subjected his people to high frustrationhigh inflationhigh taxationJe ne sais pas and showed little tolerance for dissent. Qin outlived numerous assassination attempts and was quite paranoid about evolutionrevolutionretributionJe ne sais pas. He may have thought these threats would follow him into the afterlife. The army faces east towards states Qin conquered during his lifetime as if he anticipated revenging troopseventual troopsvengeful troopsJe ne sais pas coming over the horizon. In fact, his own warriors may have armed the revolt that did come after his death. Peasants snatched the metal swords from the clay soldiers' grasp and overthrew Qin's successors. But despite shooting farmers and the happening crimelooting farmers and the passing timelooting, fires and the passage of timeJe ne sais pas, Qin's army survived into the modern world.