10. China's Han Dynasty - The First Empire in Flames
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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The Shungnu People
The people of the urasian steps had learned how to tame wild horses. They lived nomadic life styles, travelling on horseback in vast populations. The little boys start out by learning to ride sheep and shoot birds and rats with a bow. By at least the first millennium b c, these nomadic groups of horse riders had become a military threat to the settled societies of the chinese plains.
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