Why did the British and the French decide to help the Qing Dynasty instead of supporting the Taiping Rebellion instead?
>Fellow Christians
>Friendly towards the West
>Instituted liberal policies including equality of the sexes, a ban on slavery, and banning foot binding
>Wanted modernization
>Europeans never liked the Qing anyway
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
Easton Wood
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James Hill
>heretics
>the west was largely secularized
Brody Peterson
>tfw we don't live in the timeline where the Taiping took over half of china became a fascist theocracy that eventually takes over the rest of China and ends up fucking up Japan before World War II
Samuel Nelson
Was this the most wtf event of the last 200 years?
Hudson Martinez
Because they were all batshit insane?
Blake Russell
Their theology wasn't that much more far-fetched than that time an Arab warlord announced he was chosen to receive the final revelation of God from the Archangel Gabriel.
Jason Martinez
Japan could probably have held them off desu, they were much more successful in their modernization and the west of Japan is pretty defensible.
William Wood
True, hence the 200 years part.
The Islamic conquests are probably second only to the Mongol conquests in terms of wtf factor.
Bentley Perez
It's insane how many people died in the Taiping rebellion. The actions of one single nutcase caused the deaths of more than 20 to 30 million people over the time span of 14 years.
Adrian Roberts
>ignoring they became popular on a very anti-foreigner platform
Well there you go