Xiongnu: The Nomad Confederacy That Forced China to Build the Wall
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For sixty years, the richest empire on earth paid its enemies to stay away.In the winter of 200 BC, the founding emperor of the Han dynasty marched north with the largest army in the world to settle the nomad problem — and spent seven days surrounded on a frozen hilltop by cavalry he could not catch and could not beat. He escaped by bribery. For the next six decades, China sent silk, grain, wine, ...
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For sixty years, the richest empire on earth paid its enemies to stay away.In the winter of 200 BC, the founding emperor of the Han dynasty marched north with the largest army in the world to settle the nomad problem — and spent seven days surrounded on a frozen hilltop by cavalry he could not catch and could not beat. He escaped by bribery. For the next six decades, China sent silk, grain, wine, ...
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