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Queen Dowager Zhao’s life was full of turbulence and scandal. She lived during the Warring States period. The Warring States period was a time when the seven states of China–Qin, Chu, Zhao, Wei, Han, Yan, and Qi–declared independence from the ruling Zhou dynasty and warred with each other.[1] Zhao Ji was a dancer and singer from Zhao. She was once a concubine of Lu Buwei, but she happened to catch the eye of the hostage Qin prince, Zhi Chu. Prince Zhi Chu married her, and when he became King of Qin, he made her his Queen. However, Zhao Ji’s greatest legacy was not that she rose from humble beginnings, but that she was the mother of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi. Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi reunited all of China and became the first Emperor of the Qin dynasty.