Lasted from 221 to 206 BC Used bureaucracy to form government Emperor: Qin Shihuangdi First centralized Chinese government Ended the Warring States Period in China Home of the Terra-Cotta Warrior Located in North-Eastern China The Qin build the great wall of China Modeled after the Qin Dynastys army The Terra-Cotta Army is a group of stone statues There are over 7,000 human statues, and about 4,000 stone horses. Discovered in 1974 In the yellow river valley Created to show power The Qin Emperor rejected Confucius thinking Burned Confucius texts and writings Taoism and Buddhism had not yet developed The Qin Dynasty embraced a governmental philosophy called Legalism Qin was in full development from 476 to 221 B.C. Qin created a centralized bureaucratic government The dynasty was broken into several states, Han, Zhao, Wei, Yan, Chu, and Qi. Each state used its own aristocratic system B.C. Three assassination attempts upon emperor Qin Qin died in 210 B.C. even though he was obsessed with life. It fell in 207 B.C. defeated by Xiang Yu