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#214 - History's Most: "History's Worst Civil War," with Alexander Clifford & Peter Daisley

The History of China

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What Do You Do When Your Dynasty Is About to Fall?

It's a long standing tradition, ou imen. You're hard pressed to find a a chinese dynasty that doesn't do that,. It's virtually, ayou run out of competence. So they put a child, another child, on the throne and say, ok, now, give the throne to me. Ye, it's, there's almost a rule book by which you do this thing. Er, one other aspect ofe of the civil war, unlike a lot of civil wars, i believe the typing rebellion also as am, foreign intervention. The colonial british and french decide that this isn't something they can just sit out. Well, never let a good

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