n, Sui, Jin, and Ming periods, rather than a single, continuous long wall. At this time, the Great Wall reaches from northeastern Heilongjiang province to northwestern Gansu. Revolts broke out as soon as the first Qin emperor died in 210 B.C. His dynasty was destroyed less than twenty years after its triumph. The imperial system was first introduced during the Qin dynasty; however, set a pattern that was developed over the next thousands of years.
             This dynasty affected the current level of China in political level, business level and even in tourist attraction. By forming the first imperial system, later Chinese Dynasties were able to follow the ideal of The Mandate of Heaven.
             The next dynasty is the Han Dynasty. The new empire followed much of the Qin governmental structure but retreated a bit from centralized rule by establishing principalities in some areas in case of the political convenience. The Han rulers modified some of the harsher aspects of the previous dynasty; Confucian ideals of government, which was not accepted during the Qin period, were adopted as the creed of the Han Empire, and Confucian scholars gained power. An examination system was also starting. Intellectual, literary, and artistic studies were increased. The Han period produced China's most famous historian, Sima Qian, whose Shiji (Historical Records) provides a detailed chronicle from the time of a legendary Xia emperor to that of the Han emperor Wu Di (141-87 B.C.). Technological advances also marked this period. Two of the great Chinese inventions, paper, and porcelain, were known to be made in this period.
             The Han dynasty, after which the members of the ethnic majority in China, the "people of Han," are named, was notable also for its military powers. The empire expanded westward as far as the rim of the Tarim Basin (in modern Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region),
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