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The Terracotta Army

Even though some say the Terracotta Army was a reflection of paranoia and fear not greatness, the terracotta army tells us a great deal about the Qin dynasty and its wealth because of the sheer number of people and time to construct the Terracotta Army. The Qin dynasty greatly expanded the size of China thus increasing its wealth and population. This is clearly evident in the discovery of the Terracotta Army in the Shaanxi province of China in 1974 ("Asian Art Museum"). The discovery unearthed thousands of giant statues of warriors and horses dressed for battle. The sheer number of statues indicates the mass amount of people it took to create these works of art, some accounts indicate more than 700,000 people were enslaved

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