{"slug": "yuezhi", "label": "Yuezhi", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuezhi", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q467985", "qid": "Q467985", "description": "ancient people mentioned in Chinese histories", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [-204, 185], "span_label": ["205 BCE", "185 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "kushan-empire", "label": "Kushan Empire", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "bactria", "label": "Bactria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "xiongnu", "label": "Xiongnu", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "india", "label": "India", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "scythians", "label": "Scythians", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "han-dynasty", "label": "Han dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "buddhist", "label": "Buddhist", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "chinese-language", "label": "Chinese language", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gansu", "label": "Gansu", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "emperor-wu-of-han", "label": "Emperor Wu of Han", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "zhang-qian", "label": "Zhang Qian", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -204, "year_label": "205 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Xiongnu leader, Modu Chanyu, conquers the neighbouring nomadic Yuezhi and Donghu peoples, thereby establishing the Xiongnu Empire. He appoints a Tuqi King of the left (east) and a Tuqi King of the right (west) to prevent rebellions.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361853505#Northern_Asia", "title": "205 BC", "revid": 1361853505, "section": "Events › By place › Northern Asia"}}, {"year": -173, "year_label": "174 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Xiongnu attack the Yuezhi, and force them away from Gansu.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1209269072#Mongolia", "title": "174 BC", "revid": 1209269072, "section": "Events › By place › Mongolia"}}, {"year": -140, "year_label": "141 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Yuezhi refugees appear on the borders of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326020399#Bactria", "title": "141 BC", "revid": 1326020399, "section": "Events › By place › Bactria"}}, {"year": -138, "year_label": "139 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Wu of Han sends the diplomat Zhang Qian west to form an alliance with the Yuezhi against the Xiongnu. Wu does this after learning from Xiongnu defectors that the Xiongnu had defeated and killed the king of the Yuezhi, had expelled the Yuezhi from their lands and were using their king's skull as a wine goblet. The Yuezhi had subsequently migrated further west.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1305121804#China", "title": "139 BC", "revid": 1305121804, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": -11, "year_label": "12 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "King Azes II dies. The rule of the Indo-Scythians crumbles as the Kushans, one of the five tribes of the Yuezhi who live in Bactria expand into India to create a Kushan Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372852966#India", "title": "12 BC", "revid": 1372852966, "section": "Events › By place › India"}}, {"year": 50, "year_label": "50 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Yuezhi tribes are united under the Kushan leader Kujula Kadphises, thus creating the Kushan Empire in Afghanistan and northern India (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373339620#South_Asia", "title": "50s", "revid": 1373339620, "section": "Events › 50 AD › South Asia"}}, {"year": 185, "year_label": "185 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Zhi Yao, a Kushan Buddhist monk of Yuezhi ethnicity, translates Buddhist texts into the Chinese language during the Han dynasty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371308362#China", "title": "AD 185", "revid": 1371308362, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}]}