#29 - W. Han 7: Every Direction But The Sea

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 6 July 2014

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In this last of three parts of Wu of Han, with the back of the once-mighty Xiongnu Empire broken, Emperor Wu's Han turns to the South, North, and West to gobble up most of its neighbor states in an orgy of expansion. At home, the aging Wu must contend with peasant uprisings, witchcraft directed against him, and his own building paranoia... any of which could destabilize that which he's spent a lifetime building. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.0	Episode 27, every direction but the sea.
1:14.1	Over the course of episodes 25 and 26,
1:16.6	we've covered the early life and reign of Emperor Wu of Han.
1:20.5	This included the Chinese's initial expiration and contact with the kingdoms of Central Asia through explorer Jiang Tian,
1:27.0	and later the forceful seizure of the westward Heshi corridor and shattering of the Shong New Empire stranglehold on Han by 119 B.C. E.
1:36.7	This time we look at the other goings-on of Wu, the war-like's, expanding empire to the
1:41.8	northeast, west, and South, even as it continued to struggle
1:46.0	against the Northern Horseman, as well as Wu's later reign and eventual death.
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