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2 emperors in this time. (Yang Jian (581-604) and Yang Guang (605-617))
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583 - Wendi moved the capital to the newly built Chang’an named for a previous Han capital city to the northwest. It became the largest city in the world for its day as well as the largest in area of any walled Chinese city. Under the Tang Dynasty it was the most cosmopolitan city.
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584-589 the building period of the Grand Canal
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589- China becomes reunited.
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Taxes burdened peasants despite the great wall and the Grand Canal providing a flourishing economy. Revolts had also broken out and had caused a decline.
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Gaozu (r. 618-616)/(Li Yuan)
given after his death.
Taizong (626-649)
Gaozong (649-683)
Zhonzong and Ruizong (683-690)
Wu Zhao (Empress Wu) (690-700)
Xuanzong (712-756) -
635- Taizong had welcomed Christians and allowed a church to be built.
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690 Empress Wu usurped power for herself and became the only female emperor in Chinese history.
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841 Suppression of Buddhism and other foreign religions occurred: many temples were closed, the government took religions wealth This persecution cut China off from contact with Central Asia and India where Buddhism then declined in favor of Islam and other religions.
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875- Rebellions had sparked, thus destroying the Tang dynasty.
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The emperor and his heritage line had been assassinated, thus allowing a battle for power from warlords.
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Kangxi (1662-1722)
Yongzheng (1722-1736)
Qianlong (1736-95)
Guangxu (1898-19090 -
1840-1842 Opium War occurred ending with the Nanjing Treaty which gave Hong Kong to Great Britain.
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1850-1864 The peasants rose up in the Taiping Rebellion to follow the "younger brother of Christ" to overthrow the Qing Dynasty.
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1900 Boxer Rebellion occurred.
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1911 Qing Dynasty was overthrown by revolutionaries.