Qin Huang Di Was a Good or Bad

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Qin Huang Di (meaning First Emperor) was the first emperor of china. He improved to infrastructure throughout china. After unifying china He allowed citizens to take parts in government. He invented one economy system that everyone in china would use. Qin Huang Di was a brutal emperor that dictated all of china and outlawed other religions. He highly disapproved all teachings of Confucianism and discarded most history before him. However he was a good emperor overall because he did things mostly for his country to live on. Qin Huang Di improved china’s infrastructure by making vast networks of roads, canals and bridges throughout China. This helped with trading and traveling. He built the Great Wall of China which protected his country from outsiders. His constructions throughout China saved many lives from natural disasters and invaders. He conquered all of China 221 B.C. After unified it he was the first emperor who allowed citizens to take parts in government according to their abilities to work not just by blood. He invented one economy system that everyone used china. He unified China under one currency Lian, all units of measurements, reduced the amount of Chinese characters and made one written language. This made the economy system run much smoother. Qin Huang Di was an egocentric and brutal emperor that dictated all of china and outlawed all religion that wasn’t legalism. He forced labour to all peasants who were men and made criminals to work on the Great Wall of China. Workers who died on the job were used as materials for building the Great Wall of China. There was no special funeral for the person who died and nobody would care, like he says “a thousand may die so that a million may live. He highly disapproved all teachings of Confucianism and discarded most history before the Qin dynasty. He hated being criticized and the Confucianism did
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