Terracotta+Army

=The Terracotta Army= By: Drew Haxton =Emperor Qin Shi Huang= == =Emperor Qin's Mausoleum=
 * Ruled from 246 to 221 B.C.E.
 * Ruled during the Warring States Period.
 * He feared death and tried to find a secret elixir of life.
 * One "elixir" was the deadly chemical Mercury.

=Stone Warriors= =Pit One= > == =Pit Two=
 * Emperor Qin Shi Huang commenced the construction of his tomb thirty-seven years before his death in 210 B.C.E.
 * Construction lasted another two years after his death.
 * Over 700,000 forced laborers worked on the tomb.
 * Tomb covers 219,500 square feet.
 * Emperor Qin Shi Huang did not want his tomb to be found by anyone.
 * Emperor Qin locked every builder inside the tomb upon completion.
 * The tomb was found more than 2,000 years later in 1974 by a group of farmers from Xi'an.
 * An estimated 8,000 soldiers, horse and chariots were originally in the tomb.
 * Created from local clay and baked in a kiln
 * Every soldier in the tomb was hand-made and no two soldiers have the same face.
 * 750 feet long and 200 feet wide
 * Believed to once have housed 6,000 soldiers
 * Pit one was built with ten partitions packed with soldiers.

== =Pit Three= [|360 Degree View of Qin Tomb]
 * 60 feet North of pit one.
 * 400 feet long and 320 feet wide.
 * Constructed in the shape of an "L".
 * Constructed of four arrays which contained archers, cavalrymen and infantrymen.
 * Excavation of pit two is still ongoing.
 * 80 feet south of pit one.
 * 90 feet long and 80 feet wide.
 * Considered command center of Emperor Qin.
 * Contained many pieces of pottery, jewelery, and other relics of Emperor Qin's reign.
 * Constructed in the shape of a "U".
 * Many soldiers were destroyed over time.