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Standard accounts record imperial immortality quests and maritime expeditions

Dated 1 January 1961: Standard accounts record imperial immortality quests and maritime expeditions. In the causal graph this event weakens Health-System Capacity, a driver that strengthens Hospital beds (per 1,000 people) — a worsening welfare path.

Standard accounts record imperial immortality quests and maritime expeditions

Sources: [1][2]

Read the full account

Resources went to magic rather than to replicable medicine. Dated via modern standard narration.

Context

It is not a clinical trial.

Qin Shi Huang is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

Do record the quest as received.

Do record the quest as received.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Qin Shi Huang

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.28 · verified

    Court act under the First Emperor as received or as excavated. Later books and museums publish it.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactStandard accounts record imperial immortality quests and maritime expeditions
    2. weakensDriverHealth-System Capacity
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Hospital beds (per 1,000 people)
    Worsening path

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 1961 · verified

    Do record the quest as received.

    • Hospital beds (per 1,000 people)

      via Health-System Capacity

      Worse

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.18 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.6)

      Observed

      3.08 Per 1000 people · 1.24 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      6 readings, 2018–2023: rose from 3.07 Per 1000 people to 3.08 Per 1000 people.

      Above normal = better

    • Under-five mortality rate (global)

      via Health-System Capacity

      Worse

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.15 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.5)

      Observed

      37.4 deaths per 1,000 live births · 12.4 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      7 readings, 2018–2024: fell from 40 deaths per 1,000 live births to 37.4 deaths per 1,000 live births.

      Above normal = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Qin Shi HuangEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Emperor Qinshihuang’s Mausoleum Site MuseumEmperor Qinshihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Shiji records the First Emperor’s search for immortality, including commissions to specialists and voyages.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorQin Shi Huang
  2. contributed toFactStandard accounts record imperial immortality quests and maritime expeditions
  3. weakensDriverHealth-System Capacity
  4. strengthensIndicatorHospital beds (per 1,000 people)

Cite this page

Factrail. (2026). Standard accounts record imperial immortality quests and maritime expeditions. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/cn-qin-immortality-quests

https://factrail.ai/facts/cn-qin-immortality-quests

Accessed 16 October 2026.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed

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