Person45 BC – AD 23
Wang Mang
Consort-family statesman of the late Western Han who usurped the throne, founded the Xin dynasty and pursued reforms modelled on the Rites of Zhou, which failed within fifteen years
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Wang Mang, a consort-family statesman, usurped the Western Han throne, founded the Xin dynasty and pursued archaising reforms such as nationalising land, but it collapsed amid turmoil and peasant revolts after fifteen years.
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- Ancient China and India770 BC – AD 220
From the Hundred Schools of the Warring States to the unified empires of Qin and Han, and from the Buddha to the Maurya and Kushan empires — the millennium that shaped East and South Asian civilisation