REVOLTS

SOCIAL CLASS DIFFERENCES

LOWER CLASS

• Ate grains and rice
• Rough hem clothing and sandals.
• Wanted more resources.
• Poor harvest, high taxes couldn't pay debts.
• Horrible working conditions

UPPER CLASS

• Ate pork fish and fine wines
• Fine silk garments, leather shoes.
• Owned large estates
• Implemented horrible working conditions for the workers.

LAND DISTRIBUTION

• Owners of large estates would take over property of the less fortunate and and start employing cheap labor
• People with less or no land began reveling because they believed it was unfair.
• Land owners treated the workers poorly
• Large amounts of bandits
• Poor individuals would sell their land in return for a debt cancellation.

EFFECTS

• Yellow Turban Uprising: revolt due to problems of land distribution
• Bandit attacks due to people not having enough resources
• Workers revolting due to horrible treatment.
• Factions at court paralyzed the central government Han empire dissolved
• China was divided into regional kingdoms