{"id":5103,"date":"2016-10-14T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/?p=5103"},"modified":"2021-10-11T09:28:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T07:28:49","slug":"greeks-may-have-built-terracotta-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2016\/10\/greeks-may-have-built-terracotta-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Greeks May Have Built Terracotta Army"},"content":{"rendered":"

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China’s first emperor was buried with 8,000 stone statues – a stone army guarding his tomb. It is now believed that Ancient Greeks influenced and helped build these statues along with other sculptors. It also suggests there was close contact between the Greeks and China long before the opening of the Silk Road.<\/p>\n

Ancient Greeks may have built China’s famous Terracotta Army – 1,500 years before Marco Polo<\/a><\/h2>\n

Discuss:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. When dealing with history that is thousands of years in the past do you think we can really know what truly happened?
\n2. History seems to change often with new discoveries of our past, do you think many of the things we now believe are actually false?
\n3. What are some historical events that you are interested in?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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