Ep. 245 | The History of Xinjiang (Part 2)
The China History Podcast
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The Story of Madu Chanyu
Chin shirhang died, and along with death came the quick demise of his dynasty. And at the very same moment that the first emperor of china dies, amongst he shungnu, this carismatic and powerful leader emerged. This was toman's son, madu. He was a real bloodthirsty, rough fellow. The story is attributed to him by chinese historians a, it don't paint them in a very positive light. Under madu chanu, the shungnu had become an empire that encompassed all the traditional mongol homelands and stretched west into eastern central asia. Mongols were 14 hundred years later starting to ramp up
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