Assertion: emperor | /r/CapableOf | order the burning of all books
Facets:
value: in 213 bc
type: TEMPORAL
value: in an attempt
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The Han dynasty historian, Sima Qian wrote that First Emperor, in an attempt to consolidate power, in 213 BC ordered the burning of all books advocating viewpoints that challenged Legalism or the state, and also stipulated that all scholars who refused to submit their books to be burned would be executed by premature burial.