Unification Of China

China became unified by the Qin Dynasty in 221 BCE. The first emperor was Ying Zheng, but he later renamed himself Qin Shi Huangdi. At 13 years-old he becomes emperor because his father was killed. This troubles him a bit, he begins to always worry about people wanting to kill him. Later, this will drive him into madness. Huangdi had three great feats. 1. Unifying China. 2. The Great Wall, and 3. his tomb. Unifying China was obviously the biggest. Visiting this time period was a little tricky, I had to go over a wide span of time. I started rather early, in 475 BCE. This is when warring states had many conflicts, and there were 7 kingdoms. This period ended in 221 BCE when the Qin Dynasty came into play.
As I was saying, at 13 Huangdi was rather troubled. Not only had his father been murdered, but people wanted to murder him too. At the age of 22, he found out that his mother was included in that group of people. He banned her from China, along with her new husband and the sons. This is where it really got interesting, and when I started talking to Huangdi. I became a close personal friend of his. After banning his mother, he was very confused. I finally got him talking, and he decided to take his hard past and turn it into something big. he decided he wanted to finish unifying China. For a while, there had been a conflict between Qin and Chu. In the end, Qin won. China was finally at peace, at least for the time being.http://www2.hawaii.edu/~kjolly/151/09qinimag.htm