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Terracotta Warriors Analysis

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After watching the video Secrets of China's Terracotta Warriors English documentary, I learned that there was so much history behind the Terracotta warriors. These clay statues were made for the first emperor Qin Shi Huang funeral as a more humane way to follow ancient Chinese tradition without killing off your court. Reasons, why they started making Terracotta warriors, is because in ancient Chinese history when an emperor is having a funeral they would take their court and useful people with them by making then drink arsenic wine. Crazy enough many people at that time would think following your emperor to death is an honor. Even though people would follow the emperor willingly to death it was still viewed as an inhuman thing. Later

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