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The two stories , "Diging up the past " by Helen W. Bledsoe and "The First Emperor" by Daniel Cohen . The both stories share the same information: the emperor and his tomb.
In the first selection they talk about Ch'in Shih Huang Ti the first emperor of China. He was very carfull in his moves the way he wouldn't alow anybody to know were he went or what palace
he was staying at. At a period of time and age the emperor disided to start building his tomb.

In the second selection "Diging up the past" the main idea is the tomb of Ch'in Shih Huang Ti . The tomb was originally founded by farmers. An excavation imediatlly started . They found an army of Terra Cotta soldiers (statues) .

Both sellections are compared with : the emperor, his tomb, and both of their cruelness toward the people of China.The emperor is the same in both selections, the tomb is were they buried him (the tomb was not finished by the time he died) and his cruelness. He was very cruel towards the people of China. He would kill anybody who revilled his were abouts.