Volume III · The Houses
Han dynasty
China; founded by Liu Bang (Emperor Gaozu) in 202 BC after the fall of the Qin, divided into Western/Former Han and Eastern/Later Han around the Xin interregnum.
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01How it began
China; founded by Liu Bang (Emperor Gaozu) in 202 BC after the fall of the Qin, divided into Western/Former Han and Eastern/Later Han around the Xin interregnum.
02At its height
Reign of Emperor Wu (141-87 BC), who expanded into Central Asia, opened the Silk Road, and made Confucianism the state ideology.
Territory in the record
China proper plus expansion into Central Asia, northern Vietnam, and the Korean peninsula.
03What became of it
Collapsed into warlordism after the Yellow Turban Rebellion; formally ended in AD 220, beginning the Three Kingdoms period.
04What remained
Defined Chinese cultural identity (the Han ethnonym), the Confucian bureaucratic state, the Silk Road, and major advances such as paper.
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