10. China's Han Dynasty - The First Empire in Flames
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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The Emperor Ling's Life and Times
Ling was a model specimen of the kind of young, lazy ruler that had become the norm for imperial china. He came to the throne at the age of 12 and enjoyed creating role playing sonarios with his beautiful consorts. As recorded in the book of later han, the emperor ordered a market set up in the harem apartment and had all his in trade there. They robbed and fought one another, and the emperor, dressed as a peddler, drank wine and feasted with them. But it wasn't until the reign of the emperor ling that the true disintegration of the han empire began.
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