Tang Dynasty
When?
- Tang Dynasty began June 18, 618
- Ended June 1, 907
- Tang Dynasty was founded by the Li family who gained power at the collapse at the Sui Empire.
- Tang Dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China.
Where?
- Tang Dynasty's capital, Chang'an, was the most populous city in the world at the height of the Tang Dynasty.
- In China, the Tang Dynasty was considered a high point of the Chinese civilization.
- It was considered to possibly even pass the Han Dynasties accomplishments.
Key People
- Li Yuan - formed the Tang Dynasty
- He united China and adopted Buddhism.
- Arab traders introduced Islam to China and Wang Wei.
- Wang Wei - was a poet and painter, he also created pure landscape style of painting.
- Wu Daozi - was an artist who was famous for initiating new myths in his artwork.
- Du Fu - Chinese poet, called Poet Historian, was very famous.
- Wu Zetian - was an empress, she became the only Chinese empress regnant ruling in her own right.
- Li Shimin - seconds emperor of the Tang Dynasty ruled from 626 to 649.
Before the Tang
- Before the Tang Dynasty there was another dynasty called the Sui Dynasty
- Sui Dynasty was in power from 581 to 618.
- The Tang Dynasty took control when the Sui dynasty was collapsing.
End of the Tang
- Ended around 907
- End of the Tang Dynasty started during Emperor Xizong's reign when the notable Huang Chao Uprising broke out.
- Another reason for the fall was because of the Shi Rebellion.
What They're Known For
- Known as the most influential empire for the Chinese civilization.
- During the Tang Dynasty, China reached an all time peak of the Chinese civilization and actually became the center of trade in the east.
- The achievement of the Tang Dynasty had a dynamic influence on todays world as well.
- The Tang Emperors developed a strong foundation for their government.
- Medicine is probably one of their highest contributions and they practiced world-wide.
- The use of organic materials and Herbs for medicine was developed by the Tang Dynasty.
- During the time of studying medicine, the specifically studied on medicine for diabetes.
- However, during this search for a medicine for diabetes, they discovered this condition was from excess sugar. They discovered this through urine samples....
- Sun Simia wrote The Thousand Golden Prescriptions, one of China's most precious treasures in the medical field.
- They also studied certain chemicals that lead to gunpowder.
- They studied deeply into alchemy that lead to the inventions of gas cyclinders and A/C.
- Law and Math made education grow. That lead to econmic grown and stability.
- The Tang Dynasty's achievements were very exception and lead to the success with foreign relations.
Loss of Power
- The main reason for the collapse of the Tang Dynasty was the Shi rebellion and catastrophe.
- This rebellion destroyed the prosperity of the empire.
- Up until this point, in the middle of the 8th century, the Tang Dynasty had few conflicts or rebellion issues, so this came as a shock to most of the empire.
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