According to the Records of the Grand Historian by Han Dynasty historian Sima Qian, the practice was started by Duke Wu, the tenth ruler of Qin, who had 66 people buried with him in 678 BC.

According to the Records of the Grand Historian, written by Sima Qian during the next dynasty and avowedly hostile to Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor was not the actual son of King Zhuangxiang of Qin.

According to historian Sima Qian ( 145 – 90 BC ), work on this mausoleum began in 246 BC soon after Emperor Qin ascended the throne ( then aged 13 ), and the full construction later involved 700, 000 workers.

According to Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian written in the 1st century BCE, the list of rulers is slightly different: King Hui died in 335 BCE and was succeeded by his son King Xiang in 334 BCE.

According to some accounts, King Qian of Zhao, ordered the execution of Li Mu and relieved Sima Shang from his duties, due to faulty advice from disloyal court officials and Qin infiltrators.

According to Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, King Wu of Zhou deposed the last Shang king in 1045 B. C.

According to the 2nd century BC historical text Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian, the Qin state traced its origin to Zhuanxu, one of the Five Emperors in ancient times.

According to the founding myths of Qin recorded in the Records of the Grand Historian by Han Dynasty historian Sima Qian, Feizi descended from the mythical Yellow Emperor and his grandson and successor Zhuanxu.

According to a secret report filed by the Hungarian political secretary in Bucharest in late 1940, three main factions existed: the group gathered around Horia Sima, a dynamic local leader from the Banat, which was the most pragmatic and least Orthodox in its orientation ; the group composed of Codreanu's father, Ion Zelea Codreanu, and his brothers ( who despised Sima ); and the Moţa-Marin group, which wanted to strengthen the movement's religious character.

According to the Book of Jin, Sima believed that the Han Dynasty would soon come to an end, and felt no motivation to join Cao, which had already taken control of the Han seat of government.

According to the legend, he came up behind Sima Yi and called out his name, and indeed his head did turn completely around.

According to the Book of Jin, when Cao Cao saw this he grew cautious of Sima Yi, saying " This man is hiding great ambition ".

According to the Spring and Autumn Annals of Han and Jin ( 漢晉春秋 ) by Xi Zuochi ( 习鑿齒 ), Sima Zhao, the Duke of Jin and de facto ruler of Wei, one day invited Liu Shan and his followers to a feast, during which Sima Zhao arranged to have entertainers perform traditional Shu music and dance.

According to the eighth century CE historian Sima Zhen's commentary to the second century BCE Shiji ( or, Records of the Grand Historian ), Shennong is a kinsman of the Yellow Emperor and is said to be an ancestor, or a patriarch, of the ancient forebears of the Chinese.

According to Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, Gao Jianli was a friend of the assassin Jing Ke, who fails in an attempt upon Ying Zheng's life.

According to the Epilogue of Han ( 續漢書 ) by Sima Biao ( 司馬彪 ), when he was a teenager, Kong Rong paid a visit to an official named Li Ying, who received no one but the very eminent and his own relatives.

According to legends recorded in the Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian, the royal family of Chu descended from the mythical Yellow Emperor and his grandson and successor emperor Zhuanxu.

According to the Records of the Warring States, a debate between School of Diplomacy strategist Zhang Yi and the Qin general Sima Cuo on unifying China led to two conclusions.

According to Zhan Guo Ce, Sima Cuo remarked, " To conquer Shu is to conquer Chu.

According to the Han Dynasty historian Sima Qian ( who interpreted Gonghe as ' joint harmony ' in his Records of the Grand Historian ), during the Gonghe regency, the Zhou Dynasty was ruled jointly by two dukes — the Duke of Zhou ( not to be confused with the first and most well-known Duke of Zhou, who must have been his ancestor ) and the Duke of Shao ( 召公 — similarly, not to be confused with the first and most well-known Duke of Shao ).

According to Sima Qian, Confucius said: " The disciples who received my instructions, and could themselves comprehend them, were seventy-seven individuals.

According to Sima Qian, he was fifteen years younger than Confucius, but fifty years younger, according to the ' Narratives of the School ,' which latter authority is followed in ' The Annals of the Empire.

According to Qian the important issue was not whether China had an aircraft carrier, but what it did with it.

According to Zhang Qian, the Yuezhi were defeated by the rising Xiongnu empire and fled westward, driving away the Saka ( Sai ).

According to Yang Jiang, the successful production of several of her plays inspired Qian to write a full length novel.

According to Qian, Lin Shu's career, which lasted almost 30 years, can be divided into two phases.

According to the historian Sima Qian, Wei had done this to give his old friend Gongsun Ao, who had recently been stripped of his title, a chance to win a major battle and be re-promoted.

According to the poet Saadi Shirazi: Arslan possessed a fort, which raised at the height of Alwand, from all were those within its walls, for its roads were a labyrinth, like the curls of a bride.

According to economist Eduard Aghajanov, Armenia could have repaid them with low-interest loans from other, presumably Western sources, or with some of its hard currency reserves which then totaled about $ 450 million.

According to Maimonides, an afterlife continues for the soul of every human being, a soul now separated from the body in which it was " housed " during its earthly existence.

According to Peter Heather, Theodoric's former governor Theudis was implicated in Amalaric's murder, " and was certainly its prime beneficiary.

According to fellow folk singer Joan Baez, it was one of the most requested songs from her audiences, but she never realized its origin as a hymn ; by the time she was singing it in the 1960s she said it had " developed a life of its own ".

According to the anthropologist Tim Ingold, animism shares similarities to totemism but differs in its focus on individual spirit beings which help to perpetuate life, whereas totemism more typically holds that there is a primary source, such as the land itself or the ancestors, who provide the basis to life.

According to Steven J. Brams and Peter C. Fishburn, the IEEE board in 2002 rescinded its decision to use approval voting.

According to platonists ( realists ), the truth of a statement consists in its correspondence to objective reality.

According to the theory of aerodynamics, a flow is considered to be compressible if its change in density with respect to pressure is non-zero along a streamline.

According to The Guardian newspaper: " At the heart of years of dissent against psychiatry through the ages has been its use of drugs, particularly antipsychotics, to treat distress.

According to the Boston Globe ( as reported on May 18, 2010 ), the town has renamed its amphitheater in the artist's honor, and is looking to develop an Al Capp Museum.

According to the 2010 census, its population was 5, 145, a decrease of 17. 8 % from 6, 260 in 2000.

According to the Turkish Statistical Institute, as of 2011 the city of Bursa had a population of 1, 704, 441 and its metropolitan municipality 1, 948, 744.

According to this view, Beowulf can largely be seen to be the product of antiquarian interests and that it tells readers more about " an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon ’ s notions about Denmark, and its pre-history, than it does about the age of Bede and a 7th-or 8th-century Anglo-Saxon ’ s notions about his ancestors ’ homeland.

According to bundle theory, an object consists of its properties and nothing more: thus neither can there be an object without properties nor can one even conceive of such an object ; for example, bundle theory claims that thinking of an apple compels one also to think of its color, its shape, the fact that it is a kind of fruit, its cells, its taste, or at least one other of its properties.

According to this theory, the cycle of philosophical upheavals that in part drove the diversification of Buddhism into its many schools and sects only began once Buddhists began attempting to make explicit the implicit philosophy of the Buddha and the early suttas.

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