The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor

The first Qin Emperor(259 BC-210 BC),otherwise known as Emperor Ying Zheng,came to the throne of the Qin State at 13,and seized the helm of the state at 22. By 221 BC,when he was only 39 years old,he had annexed the six rival principalities and established the first feudal empire in Chinese history.
In the year 221 BC,after he unified the whole country,Ying Zheng styled himself the First Emperor ,in the hope that the throne would be passed down to his descendants from one generation to another and that the hereditary sys-tem would be kept in working order forever.Each of the supreme rulers in later dynasties also called himself "emperor".