Terracotta Army: Then and Now

Thousands of life-size clay soldiers buried with Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. Farmers digging a well found them in 1974.

Terracotta Army, the ruins today — xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Key facts

Country today	China
Status	Ruins
Date	210 BC
Nearest city on the map	Xi'an (about 34 km)
Location	34.384° N, 109.278° E

Map showing Terracotta Army in 300 BC — Border map for 300 BC. See the world in 300 BC.

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Who ruled this place

Derived from the border maps; each row runs until the next recorded border change.

Period	State
500 BC–324 BC	Zhou states
323 BC–201 BC	Qin
200 BC–2 BC	Han Empire
1 BC–299	Han
300–499	Jin
500–599	Toba Wei
600–699	Sui Empire
700–999	Tang Empire
1000–1299	Song Empire
1300–1399	Great Khanate
1400–1499	Ming Empire
1500–1649	Ming Chinese Empire
1650–1782	Manchu Empire
1783–1814	Qing Empire
1815–1919	Manchu Empire
1920–1937	Chinese Warlords
1938–1944	Chinese warlords
1945–today	China

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