Hello all, Well, we just got back from a four-day class excursion to Xi'an in Shanxi province and we learned as much, or more, than anyone! For example, did you know that over 2,000 years ago, the first emperor of China built Xi'an into a capital that would eventually rival the cities of Rome and Constantinople as the greatest city in the world? NO!? (Well, we didn't either....:-) So, it was an incredible experience visiting such an historic site, and here are some of the other interesting facts we picked up..... ** Xi'an was the center of ancient China for 2,000 years, from 1,000 BC to 904 AD. * the short-lived Qin Dynasty was named after this first emperor, Qin Shi Huang-di ** Emperor Qin was the first person to bring China together from a collection
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