HIS280Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Wang Mang, Xiongnu, Han Han
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His sister was the empress dowager and the nephew to the emperor. He held great sway and pushed his nephew off the throne and names his dynasty the xin (new) dynasty. He wanted to go back to the confucian theories. Giving the peasants well fielded land- wanted to use the well plot land where the middle plot is for the government. Wanted to go back to golden age and had to give up because it didn"t work. He created new coins for his new dynasty. Flat in north china- when idealistic reforms are taking and there is a flood. The red eyebrows uprise and throw wang mang off the throne and. Han reasserts itself in the 25: the eastern han. Capital moved to the east- chang"an to luoyang. Royal imperial china pivots between the two cities repeatedly. The new emperor was a distant cousin of the wang mang emperor.
