The 46th Earth King ruled about 250 years prior to the Hundred Year War. Strong-willed and imperious, the Earth King had little support from his people, and his reign was marked by many challenges to his rule which severely tested the Earth Kingdom's government. The most serious of these was a rebellion led by Chin the Conqueror, a warlord from the country's far northwest. Chin easily conquered all of the kingdom, with the exception of Ba Sing Se and the Kyoshi peninsula; only his death at the hands of Avatar Kyoshi halted his movements to consolidate the empire under him.