What does the terracotta army tell you about Shi Huangdi?
1 Answer
Oct 27, 2017
The emperor was rich, powerful and insane
Explanation:
The military might represented by the life size clay figures tells us that China at that time had a powerful military.
The crossbows show that the idea of mass production had already been developed by the Chinese at that time.
The cost of making all the clay figures must have been immense. The metal, clay time for the artists to mold each face differently, the digging of the trenches all required huge financial resources. The cost of the clay figures.
The Emperor must have been insane to so desire to remain immortal that he spent such a large amount of the wealth of the nation to build his tomb.
