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| | Qin Shi Huangdi biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | For all the tyranny of his autocratic rule, Qin Shi Huang is still regarded today as some sort of a colossal founding father in Chinese history, an Ubermensch whose unification of China has endured for more than two millenniums (with interruptions). |
 | | Thus, by joining these two words, which no one had ever done before, Qin Shi Huang created a title on par with his feat of uniting the seemingly endless Chinese realm, in fact uniting the world (ancient Chinese, like ancient Romans, believed their empire encompassed the whole world). |
 | | Maybe huangdi was shortened to obtain a three-character name, which matches the three-character name of Chinese people (Chinese people have extremely rarely a name made of four or more characters). |
| qin-shi-huang-di.biography.ms (3530 words) |
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