10. China's Han Dynasty - The First Empire in Flames
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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The Great Chess Game of China
After eight years of bitter fighting, china was once more united. To this day, two sides of a chess board are referred to as 'chu and han' In the year two o two b c, the commoner l bang declared himself the next emperor of china. He would return to his small home town in te state of han only once. And when he did, he wrote the following piece of poetry: Dafen sisi ingfe yan. A great wind came forth, the clouds rose on high. Wija hi nesi gue cusan.
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