The Qin army, particularly during the period of the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC), is estimated to have had around 500,000 soldiers at its peak. This large force was crucial in the unification of China under Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor. The military was well-organized and utilized advanced tactics and technologies for its time, contributing significantly to the Qin's military successes.
It was not the Terracotta Army that Qin Shihuang used to take the whole country, but the soldiers who the Terracotta Army modelled after. Thus the unification of China by Qin Shihuang was happened in 221 BCE.
The Terracotta Army are statues and therefore were never real. However, the Images were based on a real army of soldiers commanded by Qin Shihuang. So the terracotta warriors never fought. They were made to accompany the emperor Qin Shihuang to the next life as the Chinese believed that they would be his army in that next life.
Following the order of Ying Zheng (Qin Shi-huang), the first emperor of Qin Dynasty, about 700,000 craftsmen were gathered together from all over the country to undertake this super-project.The Terra-cotta army was built for an ancient chinese, Qin dynasty Ruler named Qin shuangdi. The emperor was terribly afraid of death and he asked all the potters across the land to make the soldiers to protect his body. The soldiers were actually life-sized models of actual soldiers, if a soldier did not pose for a soldier-statue, he would be beheaded.The Terra-cotta army was built for an ancient Chinese, Qin dynasty Ruler named Qin shuangdi.
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Yes, it is the reason why those soldiers continued to serve the emperor lying in the tomb as his guards.
He believed that the Terra Cotta soldiers would protect him and his tomb after he died.
They were his army
He ordered to build the Terracotta Army as his tomb guard in accordance with the appearance of his elite soldiers.
The tomb of Qin Shi Huang is actually more like a city. The soldiers themselves are in three pits east of this and the tomb itself.
There are many different soldiers in the American army. The United States of America's army consists of more than five thousand and sixty soldiers in total.
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The Terracotta Army was built to protect the tomb of Qin Shihuang, the first emperor of China, to boast his power and show loyalty to him after his death. The Terracotta Army was made in order to help the Emperor of Qin (Qin Shi Huangdi) in 210-209 BC rule in the "afterlife." The warriors were buried with the Emperor of Qin in hopes that in the next life they would be his army. For this reason they are often dubbed "Qin's Army." Like the Ancient Egyptians, the Emperor Qin believed inanimate objects such as statues of people or animals, or sculptures of food would come alive in the afterlife. The Emperor had the terracotta constructed in the belief that he would be as powerful in the spirit world as he was in the real world.