Ancient China - The Eastern Han Dynasty
Let's continue our exploration of China's history with a dip into the world of the Eastern Han. The Eastern Han dynasty starts off with some powerful leaders, while the latter century of their history is filled with weak leaders and a competing court, with clans of the empresses, inner-court eunuchs, and the outer-court Confucians. The empire declined and eventually fell apart, to an extent, into an arena of competing warlords. Three powerful generals eventually came to found 3 new states, entering us into the 3 kingdoms period.
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Image credits.
Jian'an Commanderies - Esiymbro, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Statue commemorating Ban Chao, Kashgar - John Hill, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
East-Hem 100ad - Thomas Lessman (Contact!), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Three Kingdoms timelapse - Three Kingdoms fan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ming Dynasty wood carving books in Tian Yi Chamber colllection - Gisling, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons