What's your go to /his/ story topic when talking to someone who doesn't study/know too much about it?
Taiping Rebellion, mid 1800s China. In short:
>Dude Hong Xiquan fails civil service exam three times, goes crazy, thinks he's the younger brother of Jesus
>Starts a religious rebellion while China's already fucked with the Opium Wars, does pretty well, all of society under Taiping is a weird fusion of religion and military
>Ends up crushed, up to 30 fucking million people die, Nanjing gets wrekt pretty bad, deadliest civil war in human history
>All started by a Chinese dude who thought he was related to Christ
Probably one of the weirdest history stories I've came upon so far
>>1398627
what
>>1398627
I have 3
>WW1
>Korean War
>Mongols (Early life of Chinggis Khaan and late Ogedei Khaan)
