10. China's Han Dynasty - The First Empire in Flames
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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The Blackened Ruins of Lo Yang
The entire city of lo yang was a blackened ruin. Palaces and houses all burnt to ashes, walls and fences all broken. Later he wrote a poem about what he saw. Boden be mam ban yo ang lo yang. Shan lo i to the ridge of bamang mountain and look down on the city of lo Yang. How still it is. Otm, i have been away such a long time that i do not know which street is which. How sad and ugly the empty fields are. A thousand miles without the smoke of a chimney. E, i think of the house i lived in all those years, my breath catchesand i cannot st
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