Person5 BC – AD 57

Emperor Guangwu of Han

Also called: Liu Xiu

First emperor of the Later Han (r. 25–57), a Han descendant and Nanyang magnate who ended the turmoil after Xin and restored the dynasty with its capital at Luoyang

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    Liu Xiu (Emperor Guangwu), a descendant of the Han house, ended the turmoil after Xin, took the throne and restored the Han with its capital at Luoyang (the Later or Eastern Han).

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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