UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1991 · Q5(c) · 20 marks
‘The Heavenly Land system was significant in that it greatly expanded the idea of equalizing rich and poor and landowning which the peasant wars had put forward in the past.’
- Chapter
- Industrialization
- Topic
- China: The Taiping Heavenly Land System
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