First White Lotus uprisings flicker in Yuan China
1317
In the rice paddies south of the Yangtze, White Lotus devotees and discontented peasants mounted the first significant revolts against Mongol taxation. The risings were crushed, but the network of Buddhist millenarian cells survived underground, waiting for the floods and famines that would give them a mass following in the 1340s.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.