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Later in his life, Qin Shi Huang feared death and desperately sought the fabled elixir of life, which would supposedly allow him to live forever.
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Later and Qin
* Yao Chang, emperor of the Qiang state Later Qin ( d. 394 )
* Yao Hong, last emperor of the Qiang state Later Qin ( b. 388 )
* Yao Chang, emperor of the Qiang state Later Qin ( b. 331 )
* Gao Zu succeeds Tai Zu as emperor of the Later Qin Empire.
* Yao Xing, emperor of the Qiang state Later Qin ( b. 366 )
* Yao Xing, emperor of the Chinese Qiang state Later Qin ( d. 416 )
* Yao Hong, emperor of the Chinese Qiang state Later Qin ( d. 417 )
Later Chinese dynasties emulated the Qin government for its efficiency, despite its being condemned by Confucian philosophy.
* Fú Jiàn declares himself " Heavenly Prince " ( Tian Wang ) during the collapse of Later Zhao, and established Former Qin.
Following the death of the Later Qin Emperor Yao Xin, Liu Yu attacked the state of Later Qin, which controlled the valuable lands of Guanzhong, lands which had once housed the capital of the Qin, Han and Jin dynasties before the barbarian uprisings.
After defeating the Later Qin army in several battles, as well as an army of Northern Wei troops which had crossed to assist the Later Qin, Liu Yu recaptured the vital cities of Chang ' an and Luoyang, the former capitals of the Jin Empire.
* Later Qin ( 后秦 ), Qiang state in the Sixteen Kingdoms period, 384 AD
Hebei, firmly in North China and right at the northern frontier, changed hands many times, being controlled at various points in history by the Later Zhao, Former Yan, Former Qin, and Later Yan.
During the invasion of northern nomads during the Sixteen Kingdoms period ( 304-439 ), several regimes including Later Zhao, Former Yan, Former Qin, and Later Yan continuously controlled what is now Shanxi.
After the death of its founding prince, Tuoba Yilu, however, the Dai state stagnated and largely remained a partial ally and a partial tributary state to Later Zhao and Former Yan, finally falling to Former Qin in 376.
Later and Shi
* Shi Hu, Chinese emperor of Later Zhao ( d. 349 )
* Shi Zhi, emperor of the Jie state Later Zhao
* Shi Jian, emperor of the Jie state Later Zhao
His son Shi Jian succeeds him as emperor of the Jie state Later Zhao.
* Shi Hu, emperor of the Jie state Later Zhao ( b. 295 )
* Shi Zun, emperor of the Jie state Later Zhao
* Shi Shi, emperor of the Jie state Later Zhao ( d. 349 )
* Emperor Shi Hu moves the capital of the Later Zhao state to Yecheng.
* Shi Hong succeeds his father Shi Le as Emperor of the Later Zhao Empire, in the Period of the Sixteen Kingdoms.
Later the Fatimids, a Shi ' a state, arose in Ifriqiya, circa 909 ; the Fatimds eventually conquered and ruled Egypt.
* The Later Tang Dynasty falls to the Later Jin Dynasty, founded by Shi Jingtang ( posthumously known as Gaozu of Later Jin ) in China.
* Shi Chonggui, last Emperor of China from the Later Jin Dynasty
The next dynasty, the Later Jin Dynasty under Shi Jingtang, posthumously known as Emperor Gaozu of Later Jin, ceded much of modern-day northern Hebei to the Khitan Liao Dynasty in the north ; this territory, called The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, became a major weakness in China's defense against the Khitans for the next century, since it lay within the Great Wall.
North China was ruled by Shi Le's Later Zhao dynasty for the next 20 years.
Another jiedushi of Hedong, Shi Jingtang, overthrew Later Tang to establish the third of the Five Dynasties, Later Jin Dynasty, and yet another jiedushi of Hedong, Liu Zhiyuan, established the fourth of the Five Dynasties ( Later Han Dynasty ) after the Khitans destroyed Later Jin, the third.
Shi Jingtang, founder of the Later Jin Dynasty, the third of the Five Dynasties, ceded a large slice of northern China to the Khitans in return for military assistance.
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