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#81 - Sui 5: Disintegration
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Length:
38 minutes
Released:
Nov 8, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
With its push against Goguryeo rather catastrophically stalled out, the whole enterprise begins to unravel with spectacular speed for the Sui Dynasty. All the while, its Emperor Yang will maintain a disturbingly unaffected demeanor for the suffering his edicts are creating across the countryside - in large part because his lackeys have created a "reality-distortion filter" around him they'll literally kill to maintain.
But elsewhere, agents of insurrection will rise to challenge the waning star that is Sui China, especially in the form of one Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang and his family.
Time Period Covered:
614-618 CE
Major Historical Figures:
Sui
Emperor Yang of Sui
Empress Xiao
Prince Yang You (Emperor Gong)
Prince Yang Hao, Prince of Qin
General Yuwen Huaji
Rebel Tang Forces
Li Yuan, Duke of Tang
Li Shimin
Lady Li/ Pingyang, Commander of the Woman's Army
Gokturk Khannate
Shibi Khan
Works Cited
Sima, Guang. Zizhi Tongjian.
Wright, Arthur F. The Cambridge History of... For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
But elsewhere, agents of insurrection will rise to challenge the waning star that is Sui China, especially in the form of one Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang and his family.
Time Period Covered:
614-618 CE
Major Historical Figures:
Sui
Emperor Yang of Sui
Empress Xiao
Prince Yang You (Emperor Gong)
Prince Yang Hao, Prince of Qin
General Yuwen Huaji
Rebel Tang Forces
Li Yuan, Duke of Tang
Li Shimin
Lady Li/ Pingyang, Commander of the Woman's Army
Gokturk Khannate
Shibi Khan
Works Cited
Sima, Guang. Zizhi Tongjian.
Wright, Arthur F. The Cambridge History of... For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Nov 8, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
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