The Terracotta Army
You're Dead to Me
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You've Got to Survive
The first emperor's tomb complex seems to tell us a very clear, confident story of a man who felt entitled to disrupt and often end the lives of millions of people to fulfil his own plans. If we view this site out of its broader historical, cultural context, we might see it as a swaggering endorsement of the power of the ancient chinese state under a centralized autocrat. The newance window is where phil and i take a break and we play with our terracotta warriors. Andstutted professor julia takes two uninterrpted minutes to tell us something we need to know about the terracotta warrior mausoleum and the wider archaeology.
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