I've been neglecting this blog a bit recently, which is regrettable. Unfortunately schoolwork had been taking up a good bit of my time, sapping my energy for writing anything that wasn't absolutely essential to complete my courses. Nevertheless, I'm back in the cockpit, this time to explain something that my faithful readers (both of you) have been wondering.
Long, long ago, I read somewhere about the Terracotta Army in the tomb of Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang, best known as the first emperor of a unified China and for laying the foundations for its Great Wall. Upon his death, his subjects prepared an elaborate mausoleum for his remains, including an "honor guard" of thousands of meticulously hand-crafted terra cotta soldiers.
I don't remember the exact thoughts that went through my head when I first read about this, but I'm sure that one of them was something along the lines of "What exactly compelled this man to expend so much time, effort, and manpower on making all of these statues that no one was supposed to see ever again?"
