DBWI: No Later Xia?

Dorozhand

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The rise of the Tangut and the Later Xia Dynasty is among the most studied aspects of Chinese history. A series of extraordinary events expertly manipulated by a talented ruler culminating in the first non-Han empire to unify China. At any point however Emperor Shizu could have failed, or a less ambitious Emperor could have stood by without acting. His conquest following the collapse of the overstretched Jin empire after the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Jiangling, carving a swathe from Gansu to Shandong, and Emperor Mingzong's divide-and-conquer absorption of the warring Southern Song states were some of the most ingenious military campaigns in history. How would Chinese history have been altered if this had not occurred? Could Song have recovered fully and driven Jin out of China? Or perhaps Jin could have recovered and conquered all of China at a later date?
 
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OOC:There's already a Taizong in Xia,the father of the founding emperor of Xia actually.This emperor would not be given the title of Taizong.If anything though,in light of his achievements of actually conquering China and become THE Chinese Emperor,I think he would be given titles that ends with zu,much like Emperor Shunzhi,Emperor Guangwu and Emperor Yongle were from otl.
 

Dorozhand

Banned
OOC:There's already a Taizong in Xia,the father of the founding emperor of Xia actually.This emperor would not be given the title of Taizong.If anything though,in light of his achievements of actually conquering China and become THE Chinese Emperor,I think he would be given titles that ends with zu,much like Emperor Shunzhi,Emperor Guangwu and Emperor Yongle were from otl.

OOC: thanks. I called him shizu like Kublai Khan
 

Dorozhand

Banned
Without the Later Xia conquests, the Tangut and Khitan likely would not have spread across Asia and intermixed with local populations, and since Great Song had little ability or interest to conquer Gansu and Tarim (focusing instead on the sixteen prefectures, and they couldn't even project power that far) as Tang had done, there might have come an increasingly insular attitude on the part of the Chinese.
 
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