Comments on: China’s Great Library of Alexandria http://michaelgr.com/2009/01/30/chinas-great-library-of-alexandria/ Stay Curious. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:04:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Creative Class » Blog Archive » The Wikipedia Revolution - Creative Class http://michaelgr.com/2009/01/30/chinas-great-library-of-alexandria/#comment-3103 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:01:16 +0000 http://michaelgr.com/?p=966#comment-3103 [...] been destroyed or lost in massive amounts, like the burning of the great library of Alexandria, the book burning in China’s Quin dynasty, or the medieval witch burnings which eliminated knowledge of folk medicine. In Asimov’s [...]

]]> By: Visuallens http://michaelgr.com/2009/01/30/chinas-great-library-of-alexandria/#comment-2851 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:13:39 +0000 http://michaelgr.com/?p=966#comment-2851 From my visual, he wa a cruel and fearsome emperor and definately not a good looking emperor as seen above. From history books that I read, he commanded his soldiers to kill and bury alive many people and burn books because he didnt want anyone to go against his rule and power. He wanted to rule for ever and he even sent his men to search for herbs which would help to keep him to remain young.

Qin Shi Huang remains a controversial figure in Chinese history. Many people nowadays believe that he was doing a good job as he unified Chine into one language, mandarin for his people.

The great wall of China that he built was to protect against the enemies and is now one of the wonders of the world.

]]> By: crazyasuka http://michaelgr.com/2009/01/30/chinas-great-library-of-alexandria/#comment-2848 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:53:41 +0000 http://michaelgr.com/?p=966#comment-2848 I didn’t know about that! Wow, what a waste. It sucks that computers didn’t exist back then to make backups. :( These days burning a physical book is nothing.

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