From Wudi to Yuandi

Question 1

From Wudi to Yuandi

Answer 1

• Wudi (reigned 141–87 bce), reign was the longest of the entire Han period
• manpower was more intensively used and natural resources more heavily exploited during Wudi’s reign, which required more active administration by Han officials
• Wudi participated personally in the religious cults of state far more actively than his predecessors and some of his successors.
• The last few years of the reign were darkened by a dynastic crisis arising out of jealousies between the empress and heir apparent on the one hand and a rival imperial consort’s family on the other.