10. China's Han Dynasty - The First Empire in Flames
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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The Takla Makan Desert
The walls completely neutralized the shong nos fast mobile tactics and restricted their ability to move around the landscape. This final move by the han slowly choked the life from the shung nu war machine. By 60 b c, they had split into five groups than engaged in a series of suicidal civil wars. It had taken more than 80 years since the emperor woos failed ambush at mayi, but the war against the shungnu had been a remarkable success.
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