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He was assigned to guard Shuofang, but in 407, angered by Qin holding peace talks with the Northern Wei, he rebelled and founded a state known as the Helian Xia dynasty. Bobo strongly affirmed his Xiongnu lineage; his state name of "Xia" was based on the claim that the Xiongnu were descendants of the Xia dynasty, and he later changed his family ...
Xiongnu Empire in 200 BC. This is a timeline of the Xiongnu, a nomadic people that dominated the ancient eastern Eurasian steppes from 209 BC to 89 AD. The Xiongnu settled down in northern China during the late 3rd century AD following the Three Kingdoms period, and founded several states lasting until the Northern Liang was conquered by the Xianbei Northern Wei in 439 AD.
Modu (c. 234 – c. 174 BCE) was the son of Touman and the founder of the empire of the Xiongnu.He came to power by ordering his men to kill his father in 209 BCE. [2] [3] ...
The rulers of Xia came from the Tiefu tribe, who descended from the Southern Xiongnu leader, Qubei.Qubei was a member of the ruling-Luandi clan as the brother of the chanyu, Qiangqu, although a later and more dubious account alleged that he was the descendant of a Han dynasty prince-turned-Xiongnu noble, Liu Jinbo (劉進伯) instead.
Zhonghang Yue (traditional Chinese: 中行說; simplified Chinese: 中行说; pinyin: Zhōngháng Yuè) was a eunuch from the Han dynasty who surrendered to Xiongnu (or Hun) nationality. [1] He was selected as a retinue from Han to Hun and later served the Xiongnu emperor Laoshang Shanyu . [ 2 ]
Xiongnu invasion of Donghu was a conflict between the Xiongnu and Donghu when Modu Chanyu came to power by ordering his men to kill his father in 209 BC. Modu Chanyu used the perceived weakness of the Xiongnu to his advantage [4] and defeated the Donghu Confederation, killing their leader and taking a great number of prisoners and livestock.
Under Modu's leadership, the Xiongnu threatened the Han dynasty, almost causing Emperor Gaozu, the first Han emperor, to lose his throne in 200 BC. [ citation needed ] By the time of Modu's death in 174 BC, the Xiongnu had driven the Yuezhi from the Hexi Corridor , killing the Yuezhi king in the process and asserting their presence in the ...
The Han–Xiongnu Wars, [5] also known as the Sino–Xiongnu War, [6] was a series of military conflicts fought over two centuries (from 133 BC to 89 AD) between the Chinese Han Empire and the nomadic Xiongnu confederation, although extended conflicts can be traced back as early as 200 BC and ahead as late as 188 AD.