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Ancient China was a strange and amazing time span where Asia really started to form. Before modern times we had giant kingdoms run by one or many emperors, kings, queens, courts, and others all subconsously working towards creating this world that we know and love.
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This is one of the most memorable eras that the humans have braved through, leaving cities and artifacts and bones and riches behind for modern archeologists to uncover.
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The Trojan war was one of the biggest, or most famous wars ever to exist in the ancient world.
This war was mostly just one giant battle, because a ding-dong of a man thought stealing a powerful king's wife was a good idea.
In the Trojan war the great hero Achilles died because his mother forgot to dip his foot in a magic stream, he died in a blind rage because his good friend was killed while trying to give hope to the failing troops. -
This was the year that hosted the very first Olympic games, in honor of their "god" Zeus.
The games were similar but different from the games we play now in modern Olympics. -
The great wall of China was built of thousands of years by lots of emperors, though it first became to be and the construction started in seventh century before Christ! Even though China didn't even really have a leader that ruled all of China, it was still constructed in the time before time. -
Hercules was theson of Zeus and a mortal woman.
Since he was half "god" and half human he was given the strenth of a "god" but still looked apon at human.
Zeus's wife, Hera was jelous of the young child, in her anger she drove him mad, causing him to kill his own children.
At this, he was forced to to ten Labors, to redeem himself. -
This is the time when the emperor Qin Shi Huang ruled China, he was the very first emperor of the Qin Dynasty, named after him.
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The first emperor was Shi Huangdi. Confucius was a group who thought humanity was good. The Legalists said the opposite. Shi Huangdi was with the Legalists, and he hated the idea that some disagreed with him. He ordered that all books that contain Confucius’ way of life to be burned, and then if people were to mention it or disagree with him, he would have them executed; hundreds of people were killed while he ruled. Also, Shi Huangdi was the one who made the terracotta army to protect himself.