Answer:
b. a prince of one Chinese state.
c. 220 B.C.E.
Explanation:
Qin Shi Huang was the founder of the Qin dynasty and the first emperor of unified China. A visitor to China in 220 BCE would have seen a unified country under this emperor, as Qin Shi Huang ruled as emperor from 221 BCE to 210 BCE. Qi Shi Huang is also remembered for expanding the Chinese territory and for his economic and political reforms. The emperor was also responsible for unifying walls into the Great Wall of China and creating an enormous mausoleum guarded by the Terracota Army.
1. The conditions were terrible. They would be living in cells with ten other people and wouldn't even have bathrooms or anything similar or would barely even have food and they would sit down in chains and get beaten by soldiers or would easily get killed or would spread diseases due to the lack of hygiene or even worse.
2. You would often get mutilated. According to many Roman laws, you would often have to pay the price in flesh fort things that you do. For example, if you're a thief or similar you could get your hand cut off or you could get your eyes poked out or similar things. This also included torture which could even result in death.
3. You could become a gladiator. Gladiators were forced to fight other people for the entertainment of people and politicians in giant arenas. You would win or you would die, and even if you won you could get killed for not being entertaining enough. Sometimes you would have to fight wild and starving animals such as lions or tigers.
4. Any type of insurrection would result in your death. If you even tried to appeal or have the sentence changed or removed or anything similar you could get killed as punishment or severely beaten and mauled. If you tried to get other prisoners to fight together for better conditions you would all get killed.
The everyday language of ordinary people is referred to as the "vernacular" and can be distinguished from language used by certain professionals like doctors, that would not be able to be understood by "common people"
