by Adam Bultman

Taiping Rebellion

adam_bultman — 2014-04-09 18:57:53 UTC

By: Adam Bultman, Jake Schuster, and Akeera Karbouski

adam_bultman — 2014-04-09 19:02:10 UTC

- Xiuquan led the Taiping Rebellion

- Believed he was the brother of Jesus

- wanted to create "Heavily Kingdom of Great Peace"

-this Kingdom would have no poor people

2014-04-09 19:05:00 UTC

-The failure of the Qing Dynasty to resist the western powers led some Chinese to believe that the dynasty had lost the mandate of heaven.

-This lead to many Rebellions including the Taiping Rebellion.

namrita_markand — 2014-04-09 19:07:43 UTC

- Hong and his followers captured large territories in southeastern China

- by 1853 they controlled the city of Nanjing

- Qing soldiers, along with British and French armies attacked the Taiping army, they defeated them in 1864

- Qing dynasty was victorious, but it all came with a cost. They lost more than 20 million Chinese people in the Taiping Rebellion

adam_bultman — 2014-04-09 19:11:38 UTC

- ended up getting defeated by Qing, French, and British armies in 1864

- it was victorious, but the cost was great

being more than 20 million Chinese people died during the Rebellion