It is a period of 10 years.
The type of government that Spain have in 16th century is monarchy. Monarchy is a form of government, which a family embodies a country's national identity. The monarch, which was the head of the family, exercises the role of the sovereignty. The monarch may either be purely symbolic (crowned republic), has partial or restricted power (constitutional monarchy), or has the complete power (absolute monarchy).
During the Taiping Rebellion, the peasants rebelled. It was mostly a civil war which killed scores of people (twenty million people approximately). The movement was a millenarian movement (meaning it occurred because of religious ideology). The movement was led by Hong Xiuquan who claimed he was Jesus' younger brother.
Castro wore military clothing to appear as a revolutionary and not a politic
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