A major cause of the rebellion was an agrarian crisis in the north of China. Famine, along with smaller floods along the lower course of the Yellow River, forced many farmers and former military settlers to seek employment in the south, where large landowners exploited the labour surplus to amass large fortunes. The peasants also suffered from high taxation, imposed to fund the construction of fortifications along the Silk Road and garrisons against foreign infiltration and invasion. The strain led to landowners, landless peasants and unemployed veterans forming armed bands (around 170) and eventually private armies.
The Yellow Turban Rebellion, also translated as the Yellow Scarves Rebellion, was a peasant revolt in China against the Eastern Han dynasty. The uprising broke out in 184 AD during the reign of Emperor Ling.
Since more food was available, their population grew. New areas were settled, which developed into cities. Increased trade routes by roads, waterways and sea ports increased trade for Chines merchants, to other parts of the world.
Mohammad Oma known as Mullah Omar, was the head of the Taliban in Afghanistan and emir of Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001. He was awarded the religious title of Emir of the Believers, which means that, for his supporters, he was the highest authority of Islam. He fought against the Afghan communists and their Soviet allies in the Afghanistan War (1978-1992) with American economic and military aid. He then formed his own movement, which seized power after the Afghan Civil War in 1996. He was overthrown by the US invasion in 2001, initiated after refusing to extradite Osama Bin Laden without a formal request for extradition.
Abdul Ghani Baradar is co-founder of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan and Afghan Taliban leader. Because Mullah Omar's lieutenant and leader of the Quetta Shura was captured, Baradar was seen largely as the de facto leader of the Taliban from 2009. He was captured by the US. and Pakistani forces in Pakistan on February 8, 2010, in a morning raid. In October 2018 the Afghan government announced the release of the detainee within the plan to facilitate the "peace process" initiated by the government with US support. and other countries.
