Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian
Sima Qian sets the model for all of China's official histories
The court historian Sima Qian completed the Shiji, a 130-chapter history of China from the legendary Yellow Emperor to his own day. It became the model for all later official dynastic histories of China.
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Alive at the time
- Julius Caesar (aged 9)
- Emperor Wu of Han (aged 65)
- Sima Qian (aged 54)
- Cicero (aged 15)
- Pompey the Great (aged 15)
- Spartacus (aged 12)
- Mithridates VI Eupator (aged 44)