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for the events of this period is sourced from the Records of the Grand Historian, written more than a century later, which estimated roughly 450,000 dead on the Zhao side and 250,000 dead on the Qin side. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (685-762) later built a temple over a collection of some of the human remains, and scattered bones and mass graves continue to be discovered on the site today.

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In 265 BC,

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