Scan the brief description of the two periods and look at photos of the Great Wall and the Han Dynasty Garden. Find other pages on China.

Learn about the era also known as the Warring States period from 256-206 BCE. Offers a summary of legalism.

Offers a summary of the people's legalist philosophy, the first emperor, and the Great Wall. Includes a drawing of a peasant.

Read about the origin and rise of the first true empire in China dating back to 221 BC and lasting fifteen years. Find a link to the Great Wall.

Learn about the empire from 221-206 BCE that unified China and gave the nation its name. Includes the "first emperor" of China, Shih Huang Ti.

Lists the major events during the rule of China's Qin dynasty. Discusses the construction of the Great Wall and the emperor's Terra Cotta army.

Contains a profile of Qin emperor Qin Shi Huang Di and chronicles events in China during the Qin dynastic rule, 221 to 205 BC.

Details China's first empire founded in 221 BC, and describes its origins and rise.

Browse drawings of the ancient armour and related articles on the history of the dynasty. See photographs and multimedia files.

Briefly chronicles the reign of the first emperor of China who founded the Qin dynasty and began construction of the Great Wall.

Offers a brief summary of the period 9-23 CE when Wang Ming ruled. Mentions the abolishment of slavery and the strengthening of state monopolies.

Profiles Xin emperor Wang Mang and chronicles events in China and the world during the short-lived rule of the Xin dynasty, 9 to 23 AD.