PersonAD 184
Zhang Jue
Leader of the Way of Great Peace, who launched the Yellow Turban Rebellion in 184
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Zhang Jue of the Way of Great Peace led peasants wearing yellow headbands in revolt against the Eastern Han. The rising was crushed within the year, but the local forces raised to fight it grew into warlord armies, opening the Three Kingdoms era.
Themes this person appears in
- 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
- The Three KingdomsAD 184 – AD 280
From the Yellow Turban Rebellion to the Jin reunification — a century of Wei, Shu and Wu, the age of Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Quan