Dawn of the Samurai: The Shadow of the Sword (TRIH eps 658-661)
1180 · Resource
In this episode of The Rest Is History, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook continue their multi‑part series on the rise of the samurai, focusing on the power struggle between the Taira and Minamoto clans in late Heian Japan. They trace the origins of the aristocratic Taira, their eastern provincial base, and the emergence of the Minamoto as rivals. The narrative moves through the 1156 succession crisis following the death of cloistered Emperor Toba, the 1159 coup led by Minamoto no Yoshitomo,...
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Around 1180
- Magna Carta (1215)
- Mongol Conquests (1206)
- Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan (1206)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Genghis Khan (1162)
- Delhi Sultanate (1206)
- Norman invasion of Ireland (1169)
- Saladin retakes Jerusalem (1187)
- Sack of Constantinople by Fourth Crusade (1204)
- Reign of Henry II (1154)