Post by guyverman1990 on Jan 24, 2016 6:18:13 GMT
Here's another thought for you for any of you who are familiar with The Three Kingdoms period of China (220-280 AD) and its subsequent novel in which it inspired Romance of the Three Kingdoms, along with god knows how much other media. Not long before aforementioned turbulent period that ravaged China after the fall of the Han Dynasty of China, The Han itself faced the blow to its power which caused it to bleed to death in the form of the Yellow Turban Revolt. The Yellow Turbans were a pheasant revolt lead by Taoist extremists in the form of 3 brothers : Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang.
In our timeline, the rebellion was put down by a group of volunteer armies that would eventually form the Three Kingdoms following the Dynasty's collapse. However, in such an alternate timeline, what if the last surviving Zhang brother, Bao managed to emerge triumphant against the volunteer armies and successfully overthrow the Han Dynasty? First of all, there will be no Three Kingdoms period and any period of disunity that would plague China akin to the Three Kingdoms would be postponed and Zhang Bao will become Emperor of China. Also since The Yellow Turbans were such fanatical Taoists, they would not hesitate to install Taoism as China's state religion and any other faiths would be strongly discouraged. A more strictly Taoist China would probably make it more difficult for other religions to flourish in the far east such as Buddhism and Confucianism.
Fill me in with speculations of your own if you desire.
In our timeline, the rebellion was put down by a group of volunteer armies that would eventually form the Three Kingdoms following the Dynasty's collapse. However, in such an alternate timeline, what if the last surviving Zhang brother, Bao managed to emerge triumphant against the volunteer armies and successfully overthrow the Han Dynasty? First of all, there will be no Three Kingdoms period and any period of disunity that would plague China akin to the Three Kingdoms would be postponed and Zhang Bao will become Emperor of China. Also since The Yellow Turbans were such fanatical Taoists, they would not hesitate to install Taoism as China's state religion and any other faiths would be strongly discouraged. A more strictly Taoist China would probably make it more difficult for other religions to flourish in the far east such as Buddhism and Confucianism.
Fill me in with speculations of your own if you desire.
