Which Chinese dynasty produced the Terracotta Army?

The Terracotta Army belongs to the Qin dynasty, buried near the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, the ruler who conquered the rival warring states and became the first emperor of a unified China in 221 BC. His reign was short but consequential: he standardised writing, weights, measures and even the axle width of carts, linked earlier frontier walls, and imposed a centralised administration of appointed officials in place of hereditary nobility. The buried army of thousands of life-sized figures, with horses, chariots and weapons, was meant to serve him after death. The figures were mass-produced from moulded parts, arms, legs, torsos, then individually finished, which is why they look distinct without each having been sculpted from scratch, and they were originally painted in bright colours that faded on exposure to air. Farmers digging a well rediscovered them in 1974; the emperor's burial mound itself remains largely unexcavated.

The English name China is generally traced back to Qin.