From Wudi to Yuandi Flashcards
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From Wudi to Yuandi
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- 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.