SSC MTS EXAM

SSC

WORLD HISTORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who led the peasant revolt that helped to overthrow the Qin state in ancient China?
A
Huangdi
B
Shi Huangdi
C
Emperor Yu
D
Liu Bang
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Born of a peasant family, Liu Bang began his career as a police officer under the Qin dynasty (221–207 bc). He turned rebel after the death (210 bc) of the Qin emperor Shihuangdi, who had been the first to unify China.

Detailed explanation-2: -Such a person was Liu Bang, who rose from obscurity to be crowned emperor of China 2215 years ago this month on the 28th of February, 202 BCE. As founder of the Han dynasty, Liu Bang also became the symbolic father of the Han people.

Detailed explanation-3: -Following a mass revolt in the Qin Empire in 210 B.C. and brief control by warlord Xiang Yu, Liu Bang seized the title of emperor of the Han Dynasty in 202 B.C. He established the Han capital of Chang’an along the Wei River in one of the few surviving palaces of the Qin Dynasty and took the name Emperor Gaozu.

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