Welcome to week 5, gonna be a bit short due to only having 2 assignments describing nearly the same history of the terracotta warriors but they do differ a bit and ill cover that in this blog post.
You’re Dead to me Podcast– Qin had started to plan his tomb all the way back from when he was only 13 years old. The death of emperor Qin Shi Huangdi was masked by followers under fish to keep his record of death a secret from the public eye. The warriors are within a area going nearly 56 kilometers, which is larger than Oxford campus for scale, finding 4 main sections with 3 of them filled with a combined total of around 8,000 terracotta soldiers.
11-14 chapter’s on Terracotta Soldiers– The original Discovery of these soldiers was only made back in 1974 by farmers digging up the soil for better crops, unknowing the history they have unveiled. Qin in death had all of his 700,000 forced workers buried alive supposedly to reanimate the terracotta soldiers but more likely to be protection into death. Women were not included in this terracotta army due to their social positions and Qin having no desire to bring his wife into his immortality.
My Opinions- Its really nice to hear about these terracotta soldiers again, I last heard from them sometime in early middle school so I have a whole new perspective on this discovery too (history on history, who would have thought). While reading chapter 12, I was given the outlook on supposed Terracotta Daughters numbering 116 of them having distinct visuals to each other just like the Warriors the emperor had built but was instead made by Prune Nourry independently. I had no knowledge of this even though they were discovered well before 2014 which made me think on why I was never taught about this side of the terracotta figures. All in all it was a nice trip down memory lane with a bit more mature discussions surrounding the topic of how the workers were treated and even buried alive yeesh.
