Qin Shi Huang

Ying Zheng became king of the state of Qin, in western China, in 246 BC at about thirteen. China was then divided among warring states. Over about ten years his armies conquered the six rival kingdoms, and in 221 BC he declared himself Qin Shi Huang, the First Emperor. Guided by his minister Li Si and the strict philosophy called Legalism, he replaced the old noble domains with provinces run by officials, and standardized writing, coins, weights and measures, and even the width of cart axles. He joined earlier walls into a long defensive wall in the north, an early form of the Great Wall, and built roads and canals, using vast numbers of forced laborers, many of whom died. In 213 BC he ordered many books burned, and tradition says he had scholars killed. He searched for a potion of immortality and died in 210 BC while traveling. His tomb near Xi'an was guarded by thousands of life-sized clay soldiers, the Terracotta Army, found by farmers in 1974. His dynasty collapsed four years after his death.

Faith: Faith not well documented. Source: Wikipedia