10. China's Han Dynasty - The First Empire in Flames
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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Dong Joo's Loyalty Belongs to Him
Dong jo had led his soldiers for years now, out in the remotest parts of the empire. They had committed atrocious acts of violence on his behalf. After a while, these men must have begun to look on him as a kind of father figure. Just like julius caesar with his gallic legions. These liang troops now owed their loyalty not to the empire and its weak succession of child kings, but to the man who rode at the front of their army. And whatever he ordered them to do, they would carry out without question. This combination would spell doom for the fragile order of the han dynasty.
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