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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from how

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Speaker 1: Stuff Works dot com. Hello and welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm editor Candid Keener, joined as always by writer Jane McGrath.

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Speaker 1: Hey biggin Hey Jane. So, a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: one of our colleagues, Christen Conger, got to go see

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Speaker 1: the terra Cotta Army exhibition at the High Museum of

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Speaker 1: Art and share at this fantastic article about it, and

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Speaker 1: we couldn't resist sharing it with everyone today. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: what It's really exciting that they're able to take a

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Speaker 1: couple of these soldiers and bring them around there at

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Speaker 1: the British Museum for a while, and we're lucky enough

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Speaker 1: to be in Atlanta and they brought him here to

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Speaker 1: the High and it's really cool. Story about the Terracotta

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Speaker 1: Army was actually just discovered in the seventies and it

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Speaker 1: all has to do with this emperor who you unified China. Actually,

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Speaker 1: he was considered basically the first emperor of China and

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Speaker 1: his name is Chen Shi huang d And if we

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Speaker 1: go back to about the sixth century VC China, at

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Speaker 1: that time, China wasn't a unified country or kingdom at all,

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Speaker 1: it was fractured into about six or seven different kingdoms,

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Speaker 1: and so Jane was the first one who really brought

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Speaker 1: all of these different provinces and kingdoms together, and he

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Speaker 1: did it in a very shrewd way. First of all,

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Speaker 1: he used conscription to gather an army together, so essentially

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Speaker 1: he forced men to join his army. And then by

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Speaker 1: using this army to overpower different nations, he was able

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Speaker 1: to get people under his thumb, and he kept them

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Speaker 1: under his thumb by unifying a system of currency that

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Speaker 1: everyone could use. And furthermore, he systematized things like weights

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Speaker 1: to unify not only through their submission to him, but

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Speaker 1: through the way that they exchanged goods and traded and

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Speaker 1: the way that they recorded their lives. So you can

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Speaker 1: see a lot of benefits from this, although I guess

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Speaker 1: it wasn't all selfless, as he did this ald to

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Speaker 1: basically build his own power. Obviously, you have like six

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Speaker 1: different kingdoms with six different currencies as difficult to build

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Speaker 1: ridges and bring things together that way. And it's funny

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Speaker 1: that he sort of tapped himself for that mission, like, oh,

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Speaker 1: But it worked. And not only that, but he started

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Speaker 1: of China to protect his kingdom from invaders from the north.

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Speaker 1: That's right, And we've done a podcast on that as well,

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Speaker 1: Yes we have. But the funny thing is when you're

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Speaker 1: that powerful and you sort of proclaim yourself as the ruler,

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Speaker 1: you're bound to have a couple of enemies. And there

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Speaker 1: were a few assassination attempts on his life, but he escaped,

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Speaker 1: but he did eventually die. But before he died, he

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Speaker 1: had a certain plan that he wanted carried out for

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Speaker 1: his afterlife. We should know he had a very intense

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Speaker 1: fear of death. And I mean, like you said, to

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Speaker 1: it's understandable that he would have a fear of death

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Speaker 1: and he commissioned a task force to go to this

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Speaker 1: mythical island that's had a sort of fountain of youth

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Speaker 1: type power that they thought of in St. Augustine, Florida.

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Speaker 1: Because I've been there holding on, I can see it.

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Speaker 1: I can see it. But in addition to that, he

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Speaker 1: got alchemists and magicians to make him pills and potions

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Speaker 1: And uh, Confucian philosophers at this time actually condemned a

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Speaker 1: hundreds of them killed. But yeah, it just goes to

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Speaker 1: But also we should know that a lot of these

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Speaker 1: his trim went fastly unprotected. But ancient manuscripts described that

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