Han Dynasty
RegionChina
Period206 BC - 220 AD
Peak Size6 million km2
Founded ByLiu Bang
About Han Dynasty
The golden age of Chinese civilization. Invented paper, the seismograph, and the compass. The Silk Road connected China to Rome. The population reached 60 million. Confucianism became the state ideology. The ethnic Chinese majority still call themselves Han people. Collapsed into the Three Kingdoms period.
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