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Cidersomerset
9th July 2013, 17:46
The First Emperor of China ....One of the oldest known civilisations on earth and
with wonders as great as anywhere else, rivals the Ancient Egyptian , Persian,
Greek or Roman civilisations and empires. With mad emperors to boot.


This is a story full of all the ingredients of the True Legends brought to life...

megalomaniac ruler, Totalitarian state , conquest, slavery , murder, spies, intrigue,
builder, seeker of divinity, eternal mortality , and the possibility of his vast
mausoleum still intact guarded by its Terracotta Army .....

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Published on 17 Feb 2013


Qin Shi Huang 259 BC -- 210 BC. was the king of the Chinese State of Qin from 246 BC
to 221 BC, during the Warring States Period. He became the first emperor of a unified
China in 221 BC He ruled until his death in 210 BC at the age of 49. Calling himself the
First Emperor after China's unification, Qín Shǐ Huáng is a pivotal figure in Chinese
history, ushering in nearly two millennia of imperial rule. After unifying China, he and
his chief advisor Li Si passed a series of major economic and political reforms. He
undertook gigantic projects, including building and unifying various sections of the Great
Wall of China, the now famous city-sized mausoleum guarded by the life-sized
Terracotta Army, and a massive national road system.

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Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor

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ublished on 10 Dec 2012


http://www.world-heritage-site.com/ The mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the first
emperor in China. Terracotta warriors and Army museum.

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China's Pyramids

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Published on 4 May 2013


Chinese pyramids are ancient mausoleums and burial mounds built to house the
remains of several early emperors of China and their imperial relatives. About 38 of
them are located around 25 kilometres (16 mi) - 35 kilometres (22 mi) north-west of
Xi'an, on the Qin Chuan Plains in Shaanxi Province. The most famous is the Mausoleum
of the First Qin Emperor, northeast of Xi'an and 1.7 km west of where the Terracotta
Warriors were found[citation needed]. Chinese pyramids were also built during the Han,
Tang, Song, and Western Xia dynasties.[citation needed]

They have flat tops, and thus are more similar in shape to the Teotihuacan pyramids
north-east of Mexico City, Mexico than to the pyramids in Giza, Egypt. Although known
in the West for at least a century, their existence has been made controversial by
sensationalist publicity and

Cidersomerset
9th July 2013, 19:04
This is referred to in the third vid in post 1


Pure Science Specials : The Diva Mummy

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Published on 12 Feb 2013


Scientists perform an autopsy on the best preserved mummy
ever discovered: that of a Han aristocrat named Lady Dai.
More than 2000 years after her death her flesh is still resilient
and the blood in her veins is still red. What can she tell us
about life in ancient China?

Cidersomerset
9th July 2013, 19:26
These are couple of good other documentaries about China that i'l put
here for anyone interested. I've seen similar ones before and it gives
us a better picture of China and its imperial history....

The Art of War Sun Tsu Full Documentary. (Educational).

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Uploaded on 9 Dec 2011


The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise that is attributed to Sun Tzu
(also referred to as "Sunzi" and "Sun Wu"), a high ranking military general and
strategist during the late Spring and Autumn period (some scholars believe that the
Art of War was not completed until the subsequent Warring States period.
Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare, it is
said to be the definitive work on military strategies and tactics of its time, and is
still read for its military insights.

The Art of War is one of the oldest and most successful books on military strategy
in the world. It has been the most famous and influential of China's Seven Military
Classics: "for the last two thousand years it remained the most important military
treatise in Asia, where even the common people knew it by name.It has had an
influence on Eastern military thinking, business tactics, and beyond.

Sun Tzu emphasized the importance of positioning in military strategy, and that the
decision to position an army must be based on both objective conditions in the
physical environment and the subjective beliefs of other, competitive actors in that
environment. He thought that strategy was not planning in the sense of working
through an established list, but rather that it requires quick and appropriate
responses to changing conditions. Planning works in a controlled environment, but
in a changing environment, competing plans collide, creating unexpected situations.



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Chinese Treasure Fleet - Adventures of Zheng He

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Uploaded on 27 May 2011


Between 1405 and 1433, the Ming government sponsored a series of seven naval
expeditions. The Yongle emperor designed them to establish a Chinese presence,
impose imperial control over trade, impress foreign peoples in the Indian Ocean
basin and extend the empire's tributary system.

Zheng he was the man chosen to lead this great fleet which reached as far as east
Africa opening up rich trade routes,bringing peace and prosperity to war ravaged
far off lands, religeous equality,and setting China on the road to economical
dominance over the rest of the world.

Why then did china suddenly stop the treasure fleets and close its borders to its
newly found trade partners?

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Cidersomerset
9th July 2013, 19:33
I was originally going to call this Chinas first & last Emporers, but got a bit distracted
watching other vids ...LOL....anyway got there in the end. I having a China night ..LOL


Forbidden City documentary


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The Last Emperor of China

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Published on 28 Feb 2013


The Extraordinary Life of The Last Emperor of China (Chinese: 末代皇帝的非常人生; ) Host: Pu Yi, the last emperor of China.

The abdicated emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Aisin-Gioro PuYi (1906-1967 A.D.),
middle name: Haoran( Chinese: 浩然), English name: Henry, ethnicity: Manchu. He
was the great grandson of Emperor Daoguang, the eldest son of Prince Chun Zai
Feng( Chinese: 載灃), and the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty in the Chinese
history. He ascended to the throne three times in his life, and went through the late
Qing Dynasty, the Northern Warlords period, the Republic of China and the Sino-
Japanese War, and was retained in the Soviet Union, transformed in the Fushun
War Criminal Management House set by the People's Republic of China and later
was pardoned and became an expert in literature and history and a member of the
People's Political Consultative Conference. He died of kidney cancer in the Cultural
Revolution period at the age of 62.