Person · 3502–3551 AM · 259 BCE — 210 BCE
Qin Shi Huang 秦始皇
Unifier of China: the Great Wall, the terracotta army, the burning of books
He gathered China out of the warring states in 221 BCE. A contemporaneity: these are the years when the Ptolemies rule Judea and the Torah is being translated into Greek at Alexandria. There is no direct connection.
Sources
Scholarship
- Britannica, “Qin Shi Huang” — the unification of 221, the single script and measures
Basis: documents and evidence.