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What Did the Way of Great Peace Accomplish That Its Victory Could Not? - The Yellow Turban Rebellion and the End of Han Centralized Military Power | Sleepy Facts About History

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Opublikowano: 2026-10-23

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! In the early 180s CE, a healer named Zhang Jue moved through the villages of eastern China offering something the imperial state could not: physical relief, moral meaning, and the promise of a coming era of Great Peace. Within a few years, his followers—marked by yellow cloth tied around their heads—became the largest organized challenge to imperial power the Han dynasty had faced in two centuries. They rose in coordinated rebellion across multiple provinces in 184 CE, kill...