10. China's Han Dynasty - The First Empire in Flames
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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Sauchur was the son of a powerful war lord in the central plains of china, but he was also a notorious drunk. He had embarrass his family to such an extent that he was exiled. And he now returned to the only other place he knew, his home town of lo yang. Lo yang had once been a prosperous place for centuries,. poets had written about its bustling life and its leafy avenues full of blossom leading up to grand laces and temples decorated with thousands of bronze statues. But tao had heard that lo yang had suffered in the recent wars. Still, when he came over the crest of the bamang mount s to the north
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