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10. China's Han Dynasty - The First Empire in Flames

10. China's Han Dynasty - The First Empire in Flames

Update: 2020-02-2421
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A city in ruins. A dynasty in tatters. An empire in ashes...

This episode, we look at the remarkable story of the first empire of ancient China, the Han dynasty. With ancient Chinese poetry, songs and folk music, we look back at the first empire's rise, its remarkable technological advances, and its first, tentative attempts to make contact with the empires of the west. Finally, we look at all the reasons behind the first age of Imperial China's final, dramatic fall.

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Sound engineering by Thomas Ntinas

Voice Actors:

Claire Hynes
Jake Barrett-Mills
Shem Jacobs
Alex Peattie

Music by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Source: incompetech.com/
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Colleen OSullivan

I learn so much from these history stories. I especially enjoyed the one on Byzantium.

Aug 9th
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10. China's Han Dynasty - The First Empire in Flames

10. China's Han Dynasty - The First Empire in Flames

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