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  • the farmer who found the first sight got kicked out of his home and land and with little if any at all, compensation!

  • For instance. There is no Roman Empire in the United Nations. No such nation-state still calls itself that. But China is still here.

  • I wouldn't even subscribe to the reasons and hard-labour works to their findings and speculations. They did this with the Giza Pyramids with "slaves" and using logs to move the blocks. youtube video - copy end and paste " /watch?v=D6aEJek3Cw4 "

  • how do they know how many ppl and how long it took..etc..and then say we can only specualate as there were no records/??

  • i did a project on this on this the king was empor quin and this warriors were made to protect the king and some of thre weapong actully fire

  • Hey! That's Jet Li!

    

  • I studied this in my Art Appreciation class...very interesting.

  • That is called Eighth world wonder

  • leave them there they are one of a life time thing and your wasting them

  • @mieraz You IGNORAMUS

  • subba 

  • I went to the museum! XD

  • Such a weird and beautiful thing to make...

  • Beautiful! 

  • they say these were made 0ne by one I dont beleave this i think they had a damn mold of errr hey joe stand still a minute while i make you in to the talk of 1975 or what ever these guys were molded after Joe.

  • @mileraz You're right! Joe just pulled heaps of different faces.

  • hahahhhahahahahahahahhahahahh-­spencer (hi michael)

  • spooky

  • ewww i have to watch this stupid school made me :/

  • They were painstakingly handcrafted and are absoulutly beautiful!

  • 1:40 why are their heads missing?

  • @l0ltoe Not everything survives perfectly intact for a few thousand years (not to mention, buried).

  • they have a show call gu jin da zhan qin yong qing is also about qin shi huang's story and is about love too there is han dong er,meng tian fang,qin shi huang and mei jiang is a nice movie

  • thts sick

  • History turns me on.... Sorry baby, I gotta watch the National Geographic Channel right now, then the Discovery Channel, and then the History Channel.. Soooo, I will catch up with you later. Just kidding.

    Watch my music video called "Inspirational Rap Music" where I talk about pyramids n stuff....

  • Chinese culture is soo magnificent. :))

  • do they come to life at night?

    Anyway please watch my video popsicle masterpiece.

  • @RespectMyHate haha that would be pretty awesome

  • China never fell. Its still here. Its the worlds oldest continuous civilization in the world.

  • @Lordofthenipplerings Wow, never actually looked at it that way... but it has not much to do with Ancient China I'd say... Otherwise Europe would be a "civilization" as well.

  • @SubzeroedMind Roman Empire would be Europe's best example. But it was overrun by Germanic tribes in 476. And the Eastern Roman Empire fell to the Ottomans in 1453.

  • @Lordofthenipplerings Fair enough. My question to you would then be, how do you define a civilization? Because you could just as well say that "Communism" (or whatever came before that) erased the Ancient China's culture/system. The people stayed the same, but the system's changed, similar to the Roman Empire.

    I'm not sure if you can classify today's China as the same or an extension of the old China. Or can you? Maybe you have more info on that one :)

  • @SubzeroedMind Usually when a neolithic culture evolves into a sedentary based culture with a written linguistic system. It has become a civilization. Its able to record its own history and its culture for the first time using written documents as opposed to oral traditions. Latin was virtually destroyed by german and ottoman invasion. Chinese however is very much alive today.

  • thumbs up if ur from sierra canyon school

  • In a video game context, it'll be cool if some evil wizard would animate the terra cotta warriors to slow down and fight the hero, giving himself a chance to escape... :)

  • Who would've thought these great civilizations such as China, Egypt, Indus would fall?

    Europe and USA are seeing their turn today. Witness the collapse of capitalist!

  • 可惜保護不足,兵馬俑原本是彩色的

  • 服了,看个兵马俑的视频,也能引起美洲人民之间的口水战啊

  • TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR

  • I'm going to see these this Sunday. The ROM has them and I can't wait...!!!

  • How does Emperor Qin know 7000 people to their exact detail and height.

  • what baffles me the most, is.... when i saw them at the sydney art musuem... it said they were built to be life-sized.... but they are extremely tall... aparently almost all of them are over 185cm, which is very tall.... but how could people in those days possibly be that tall...?? and we are not talking a few of them are these height thousands of them are this height... infact alot are even over 190cm...???? doesn't make sense

  • wooo! at least some clay people survived

  • 秦始皇

  • Wonderful. 

  • did you know that only queen Elizabeth has been allowed to touch the realTerracottas...

    if you find that interesting you are on the right track ... we are saying that the current emperor of china is not allowed to touch them yet the queen of england is allowed.....mmmmm one might begin to wonder hahaha, this is work of the dark. muhahahahaha .. puny little sukcers, mr hahn is not happy. and that is why i am here in china now. for arrangements that need being made. mr. Hahn "was" very peaceful.

  • @ihavealltheanswers i think queen elizabeth II was only allowed to walk alongside the terracotta warriors, not touch them.

  • i am learning this is school

  • He was a pussy, was afraid to go to afterlife alone.

  • @Chinastar85 spicks are porto ricans......

  • @Chinastar85 i agree with on almost everything you said but come on man china population is retarded high chinese women close your legs! with dicks so small u wouldnt think u could knock chicks up im i right? mexican arent lazy though dirty yes stupid maybe worthless idk

  • Terra-Cotta is a fancy word for clay where's the marble?

  • im learning about this in school

  • and for ben998x and chinastar85, i must say that the only thing that i agree with chinastar on is that mexicans should enter legally. other than that, you should try closing ur mouth,

  • @spammanism why the fuck are people talking about illegal immigration on an archaeological documentary

  • @Chinastar85 Chinese ppl are the biggest cheaters.

    jails are full of illegal chinese ppl. even in japan.

    chinese ae so dirty look at the streets.

    the only nice thing about chinese girls is they are tender.

    i had a chinese and vietnamie girlfriend.

    they told me many bad things about you... eat that.

  • @Chinastar85 look fucken stupid ching. i agree all thing you say about my race.

    but neve generalize. you are just being ignorant and low level talker.

    i worked legally in Japan, USA and Canada. nothing to do with what you say about.

    but China is the same as Mexico, or worse.

    your men peeing on the floor, right over the streets i have seen it.

    you beat your women badly. you got a little dick.

    chinese are the biggest

  • Thumbs up if the Fable 2 demon door brought you here

  • how was the clay army buried?

  • This was his large military "yearbook" of sorts :)

  • Excellent chinese history, so pround of been a Chinese.

  • Absolutely fascinating! Thumbs up & favorite.

  • This is amazing.

  • THE GREAT ASIAN RACE

  • When I came here, my tour guide told me this army was meant to guard the king in the after life. I wonder if it worked?

  • @SamonMarquis looks like its working, no one is uncovering the emperors tomb! lol

  • too bad that the colors did not able to make it since the discovery.

  • Before I die I will see this..and the sphinx

  • i want to see it!

  • i herd there were acctual people in the clay suits of armor that died. and the mold is made to look like them

  • i live in canada and im going to china in two months, i cant wait to see this on my tour :D and Im 12 :P

  • i went to go see that today in my grade school class it was amazing >:D

  • i went and saw those this last week

  • So many things yet to know...

  • im learning this in skool and it is so fasinating

  • the emperor tried to reach his goal of immortality with a substance, a metal called mercury, our bodies cannot absorb mercury, but he took great quantities of it, resulting into insanity and poisoning of the body.

  • @tolazytothinkofauser Though he dies just of old age it was amazing how he lived through those many years :o

  • @TitouKid Actually, he most likely died from eating too many pills of mercury, which is quite ironic as he thought they would make him immortal :P.

  • How do they know it took 37 years?

  • jornels or hirigliphs in temples it was 36 years

  • @rocker12347 that is a nice question, since the video said there was no historical record of the tomb. I can only speculate, maybe the kilt they used to make these figures were found and they can calculate how long was the kilt in use.

  • @rocker12347 china has well documented written history from >800 BC, which can be understood for people graduated from high school. People outside china can never think of how much influence the chinese history is involved in lives of chinese.

  • i love this!were learning this in skool n its so interesting how he painted every strand of hair and also every single one is unique(1 of a kind)i wanna becum a archealogist and sumday discover things like this.

  • mersongrim

    ok

  • @mersongrim learn how to spell become first.

  • @mersongrim Mi teechr wntz 2 punch u in da face. btw nicee speelin

  • @mersongrim why not starting by learning how to properly type?

  • @ticotico9000 he's probably a lil' kid..... good to see he wants to do something like this in his future tough :D

  • Marvelous.

  • i dont get it ;/

    WAS THIS TERRECOTA ARMY TURNED INTO STONES WHEN THE KING DIED?

  • Yes he believed they would protect him in hid death

  • national geographic has a no politic's rule, anyone may rent ,use or lease the public areas, this is about a display coming soon, please dont ruin it by aruging , and for the record, no man is worth nothing, or god would not of made them, all have thier failures as well as greatness,it is what a man does as himself that defines his failuers or success in moral thought or active movement, , please be kind

  • The Greatest Fighter to have Ever Lived 2.0 (Fedor / Фëдор)

  • young, all the terracotta are mostly Chinese, some of them are native ppl who start their civilization in China main land.

    Quin Shihuangdi is the most powerful, successful King who acttacked other kingdoms and united all the states into one under his domination. He burn a lot of Confucius's philosophy books which he think theConfucius's idea and philosophy are against him.

    sorry for bad English

  • i apologize.. my respect to all chinese ppl.. specially girls... bye guys.

  • terracotta: a hard red-brown unglazed earthenware, used for pottery and building construction; made of terracotta

  • oh my god u are soo stupid u fail u act like u know your history i aint even chinese and i know this terre cotta warriors are chinese didnt u kno that the emperor (the king) he made his people build up this thing called terra cotta warriors to protect him when he pass away. and it took 36 years for this to happend omg me4everyoung all i gotta say is go to the garbage can behind ur house and start diggin garbage out to eat it ur fuckin stupid. i shud spit on our face

  • no ur just a dummass that dosent get culture!!!

  • I went to Xi'an and saw these in person, they are amazing...

  • these are at a museam I MUST SEE THEM

  • Saw a few of these on display at the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville , TN. A remarkable achievement.

  • took night train from beijing to xian

    saw the warriors in the morning

    a life experience ..humbling ..

  • Nope, the emprerors name is: Quin Shihuangdi as far as I know...

  • Literally ,word by word, Quin Shi Huang di means Quin('s) first king lord, while the combination of king and lord means emperor in chinese.

    In short, it is the emperor's title, not his name (Ying Zheng)

  • there is a common mistake: "Chin Shi Huang Di" isnt the emperor's name, its a title, meaning " the first emperor of Chin", and the word "Chin" is the title of his empire---the Chin dynasty, the first unified dynasty of china. many believed that the modern word "china" came from the word "chin".

    however, call the guy "chin" is just wrong. the guy's name is "Ying Zheng"

  • Thank you :)

  • wow...among all these racial slurs, i learned alot of new facts about geography

  • Very nice video!

  • Very constructive comments below.. I would advice future viewers of the video to have a look down below for some educational boost

  • By the way,what is the relationship between racism and ancient chinese statues? I really don't undertand what makes people talking about racist stuffs here.

  • because westerners is insecure about the chinese achievements i think... westerners are very good at racism...while chinese even having a mighty country are not.. and i admire them for that

  • with all due respect, racism is not unique to any region in the world. nor imperialism. nor, obviously, faulty logic

  • I just don't undertand what is the relationship between crossbows,archers ,sluts and dicks.Why is everyone talking about sluts and dicks here?

  • minicoffee89, ur a fucken piece of shit racist

  • I've see the X'ian Terrocotta warriors! they're awesum!!! XD

  • lol are u stupid i will see the movie not dicks xD

  • i couldnt help but say that u guys are too into race...the North American Union is in existence and so the boarder doesnt matter...start preparing for the Amero currency

  • Arigatou for that one. gracias amigo, thank you, shieh shieh.

  • ah so the emperor buried all his army with him? for what...

  • you got fucked in the mean time, little dickless toilet hole ;D

  • hahahaha.... yeah bro... i mean... peace out. im tired of fighting in these post. i apologize to everybody in this room about my coments... oh well the true its i got a chinese girlfriend and she is so hot. and pretty. shieh shieh. ninhao.

  • that is unbilievable!

  • Just marked my calendar to go see them in November! It's good to live in DC. Hehe

  • Just to show you. All the the industrial building we have now. All of the ancient buried artifacts hidden forever...never to be found

  • ...

    What about twins?

  • Everyone drop the subject on racism. This video isn't talking about it, so just drop it. And I mean you. Ben998x.

  • it all happened about 2200 years ago... When the emperor of the Qin dynasty went hyper on the mistake of drinking mercury, he thought it was an immortality wine and he ended up crazy, and died in the age of 30.

  • Lol, that is amazing

  • Lol, that is amazing

  • what does all this racist thing gotta do with this video? you people are so childish, i hav diff races related to me so i dont care about those things so can you ppl pls comment on th vid n take ur arguement else where?

  • Dunno... Benito Gonzalez Hidalgo Garcia Guerrero jack rabbit Jesus Jose Mario Jimenez 25th.. . started talking shit

  • I bet Ben's name is Benito Gonzalez Hidalgo Garcia Guerrero Jack rabbit Jesus Jose Mario Jimenez 25th

  • AHAHahaha.

  • i use to not mind mexicans but now i really hate them, get a life bus driver boy. You really are smart arn't you. You probably got dumped aww poor you gay boy. Now go back over the fence!! or you can come and take out my garbage and mow my lawns haha stupid mexicans. I bet you have no life but arguing on YT

  • oh well not only a bus driver. i am a student of BCIT. computers and office equipment. so i got a good life. but you? sorry ass wanna be? copycat? i show you gay" bend over and take it" lol

  • get a life stop bothering people on youtube with your stupid depressed life

  • mexican stinks

  • no we don't at least we shower 2 and 3 times a day but you? not even shave your under parts" yuck!!we shave our big human dildo for your asian women lol....

  • mexicans = las cucarachas.

  • I don't even know why I'm wasting my time arguing with an inferior monkey who is a product of rape. I'm proud to be part of the Chinese Empire. Fucking idiot, China influenced Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Bet you didn't know because you're a dirty racist burrrrritttos. No more wasting time on LA CUCARACHA.

  • empire? lol you are not even wanna be 's copy cats" and nobody came from you. asians came from japan. and hindus. but you? maybe a dog had sex w/ your whore yellow mother. and the monkey its you. look at the mirrow. nothing else uglier than you. hahaha make me laugh please. vietnamies are pretty cuz the FRENCH got there b4 americans. but you? worthless pc of Sh..t

  • correction, Japanese came from Chinese language, they used Kanji which is borrowed from Chinese.

  • @Wolfsbane909 But Japanese are SUPERIOR to shit Chinese, the obious fact is that they made live experiments and vivisections on dirty Chinese cockraoches and USA approved it.

    Well I also do approve Unit 731 and Chinese women were only good to be comfort women to the Japanese :)

    HAHAHA :)

    BTW that Chink woman who was murdered in Toronto was nothing else but BAD KARMA for the GENOCIDE OF TIBETANS

  • @DemocracynowChina and u was claiming urself to be taiwanese huh?

  • @GuanYu89 LOL I never did you retard :)

    I think you have drank too much Sanlu again :)

    I am not part of your disgusting ape retarded race, you should understand :)

  • @GuanYu89 Beside what do you have against Unit 731, it was an AWESOME GOOD WORK :)

    HAHAHA

    Shiro Ishi deserves the NObel Peace Prize :)

  • @DemocracynowChina ur obsession with china is just.....wow

  • @GuanYu89 Yeah you are right, I should stop bully the sbuhumans :)

    Chinese are pathetic enough like that, why should I add more to their Shame :)

    But hey it`s fun to humiliate the weaks :)

  • @DemocracynowChina They built this wall.. what have you done.. other than hate..

  • go study history u uneducated idiot

  • i got university. besides you? got not even the pride to post a positive message in here.. but the whole world hates chings" sorry it hurt you but its true.

  • u hate poeple like this , it wont effect ur beautiful day mood ? try living happily , God bless.

  • im always in a good mode. oh well i love asian ppl... perhaps you guys don't beleive it but. i just hate assholes thats it.

  • i don't like hating people cuz i think thats unecessary , i don hate, u just that i don agree what u say , haha

  • ok no more hate... love and love peace...

  • glad u said that

  • WRONG, asians are from china not japan, japan from china. and stop the racism

  • Mexicans are criminals. Go to all state prisons. All you see is mexican and their stupid gangs shits. Deports all Mexican back to Tijuana or little Guadalajara. Fucking Pedro, Jose, Maria and Lupe.

  • USA, Canada, France and us Mexico deport chings" bad ppl only. the rest of your monkeys stay to make themselves business" like always, dirty stuffs, money laundry" also fraud" sorry but true...

  • selling drugs, stealing, making bootlegs, flea market. fucking monkeys. who people eat monkeys? your aztec ancestors. they eat dogs, monkeys, cats, even your great great grandma and relatives. fucking burrrrritttos.

  • LOL

  • MEXICUNTS = jack rabbits

  • you sound like shits directly coming out human asses!

  • P.S. Asians yes good in science but you chings? fucken copycats" just wanna be loosers" thats why i pee on your heads when i get to the roof lol.....

  • Mexicans are good at? Bootlegs shoes? Go to the flea market. There are ton of illegal mexicans there. Boring ass circus music da da da da da. Freaking wash your hands you dirty filthy mexicans. Atleast Chinese people wash their hands and clean their houses. Mexican are filthy. Calling us Rats? 20 family members living in a two bedrooms house? who are the rats? MEXIRATS.

  • only low class do that. living in a pack.. lol even chings do that when you come to our lands, coming insideof a ship's container" pee and poo inside so each other see, smell and sleep all in a pack. chings" lol

  • fucking la cucaracha. i bet your ex-wife left you cause you stink and lazy. your ex-gf left cause you're fucking stupid. your jap wife? ahahah jap? ahahah you made me laughed. stupid cucaracha. estupido puto. do i fucking care? i'm not krn, i'm not viet, i'm not jap. ahah fucking mexican.