The First Emperor

of home his tomb would make, as after eleven years of ruling a unified China, the First Emperor died in 210 BC. Chaos, intrigue and murder marked the next four years among his heirs, who lacked the will of Shi Huang-di, and by 206 BC a new era dawned on China with the ascendence of the Han Dynasty.

With the Han Dyansty came a return to gentler Confucian ways, mixed with some Legalist policies. For centuries, Shi Huang-di was used as an example of a bad ruler, until Mao Ze-dong and the Communists discovered that because he had done so much for China in the way of unification, national expansion and public works, he was the only good ruler in all of China's past.

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