Leader Analysis Sheet
Name of Leader: Shi Huangdi
Lifespan: 35 years
Title: Qin Shi Huangdi
Country/region: China
Years in Power: 221 b.c.e to 210 b.c.e
Political, Social, & Economic Conditions Prior to Leaders Gaining Power
 Shi Huanghi forced the aristocrats to give up their region power, got the nobles to leave the regions
and appeal to the court and after gained control of their feudal states.
 China was arranged into providences ruled by bureaucrats, who were chosen by the emperor to rule
over the feudal states. He got the bureaucrats by choosing with in non-aristocratic groups, if the
group was chosen then they would give the power to the emperor and not develop their own
independence.
 Defeated resistances under Shi Huangdi’s rule.
 Extended Chinas territories to gain political control over the south.
 Influenced North Vietnam.
 Had soldiers guard against invaders that would appose a threat to his expansionist ideals.
Ideology, Motivation, Goals:
 Shi Huanghi built the Great Wall of China to create an obstacle for outside invaders trying to clan
territory within China.
 Motivations were to expand and hire more bureaucrats to gain more power over china.
Significant Actions & events During Term of Power
 Huanghi attacked intellectuals to get them to pay high taxes to support the military expansion to take
over more regions.
 The building of the great wall made Shi Huanghi not a favorable emperor.
 Killed men who he thought who could not finish or survive, punished men that he could not kill them
all.
 After Shi Huanghi’s death in 210 B.C.E there was an up rise in revolts which was organized by
peasants to became aggrieved.
Short-Term effects:
Long-Term Effects
 Taking power away from aristocrats and giving
 Building of the great wall, lengthen in
them to bureaucrats, so the emperor could gain
3000 miles across the northern part of
more power.
China.
 Building an army to take over regions to
 Trying to influence other regions to gain
expand china.
territory and gain political control.
 Taxing the higher up class to support the
military.