Person208 BC

Chen Sheng

Also called: Chen She

Peasant rebel at the end of Qin who rose with Wu Guang at Dazexiang in 209 BCE, founded Zhangchu and proclaimed himself king

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209 BC – 206 BCThe Chen Sheng–Wu Guang Uprising and the Fall of Qinleader
The year after the First Emperor died, conscripts on their way to the frontier rose under Chen Sheng and Wu Guang. The revolt spread across the country and Qin collapsed fifteen years after unification.

Qin Shi Huang259 BC – 210 BC
King of Qin (247–221 BCE) and first emperor (221–210 BCE) who conquered the six other states, unified China and created a centralised imperial system
Xiang Yu232 BC – 202 BC
General from a noble Chu family who destroyed Qin’s main army and became Hegemon-King of Western Chu, but killed himself after losing to Liu Bang at Gaixia
Liu Bang (Emperor Gaozu of Han)195 BC
First emperor of Han (r. 202–195 BCE), a petty official from Pei who defeated Xiang Yu in the Chu–Han contention and founded the dynasty

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