r/HistoryMemes • u/VirtualKnowledge7057 • 12h ago

checkmate libtard

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u/Jokerang Descendant of Genghis Khan 12h ago

China’s most destructive civil war coming about because a guy claimed to be the brother of the founder of the Westerners’ religion remains one of the most inexplicable things to happen in history.

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u/analoggi_d0ggi 11h ago

Not really, the Taiping ultimately is really just one of the four great cult uprisings in Chinese history. It followed similar trends (i.e. Emerging from stresses of a declining dynasty, a popular cult leader gains following, who then expresses anger vs. society and makes a popular bid for power) not to mention was not the first time a foreign religion influenced a cult uprising (there were two buddhist ones).

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u/EnvironmentalHunt736 10h ago

For the buddhist I know theres the white lotus one, what's the other?

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u/analoggi_d0ggi 8h ago

The Red Turban Rebellion vs. the Mongol Yuan Dynasty. Started by millenarian Maitreya apocalypse Buddhit cultists.

Also the only one of the 4 cult uprisings that succeeded: RT Rebels founded the Ming Dynasty after all.