The Clay Figures: The First Emperor Of China

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The first emperor of China was Ying Zheng (http://www.livescience.com). They all have hollow tips on there clothes (http://www.nationalgeographic.com). DNA was found on the site where the warriors were found (http://www.natureworldhistory.com). The emperor who made this was the father of the great wall of china (http://www.swissinfo.ch). All of the figures are all grey today (http://www.nationalgeographic.com). The man that discovered the clay army is now 75 years old (http://www.swissinfo.ch).
These are based on real life fighting soldiers to protect (http://www.livescience.com). There were all different soldiers and no one of them were alike (http://www.livescience.com). Each and everyone of those figures are worth 8.5 million a piece or more (http://www.smithsonian.com). They sell 5 foot tall replicas in some stores and hotels in china (http://www.smithsonian.com). The clay figures have been in that resting spot for more than 2000 years (http://www/smithsonian.com). Most of the clay figures are finished and completed and not broken (http://www.natureworldnews.com). The emperor was in the date in history known as the Han Dynasty (http://www.livescience.com). They all have clay horses and
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Some of the clay figures have some bronze objects on them or their clothes (http://www.swissinfo.ch). The emperor's father the king of china died in 246 B.C. (http://www.livescience.com). Zheng took the throne of china at the age of 13 (http://www.livescience.com). The warriors were discovered in 1974 in china (http://www.livescience.com). The terracotta warrior mesum get about one million visitors all around the world in one year (http://www.swissinfo.ch). The discovery site where the warriors were was recorded in 1979 (http://www.smithsonain.com). Some of the clay figures have the most elaborate designing on them

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