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This event signaled the beginning of the spread of Island, which majorly impacted the world. It's effects are still quite prevalent today.
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The Tang Dynasty was to become the leader of an age of prosperirty and wealth for the chinese people, which leds to arts and literature flourishing,
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This is important, as it is the time when japan shifted to more Confucian ideals and practices, stemming from China
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Civil unrest is an unavoidable side effect of any empire, religion, or other organization that becomes unsustainably large. The prescence of a civil war signified the expansion of Islam,
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This is extremely important, because this marks the change from Islam being a local religion, to it becomming so widely spread. These conquests spread it far and wide, the raids on India being the inception of this.
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Tang Xuanzong's kaiserdom was stable and the country entered a 40-year-odd prosperity, which is recorded as the the Prosperity of Kai Yuan Period.
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Byzantine empire thwarts Muslim Arab's attempt to siege the constantinople, even after years of preparation and careful planning.
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The fall of the Tang Dynasty is just as important as its rise and prosperity, as it led to massive civil disrupts as the power struggle reappeared in violent form.
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The rise of the Song dynasty is important because it was a long lasting empire, thriviving for over 300 years.
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Revolutionized warfare, lead to higher mortality rates and faster conquest speeds.
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This is significant because it was the beginning of a crusade that ended in the entirerty of China being conquored by the Mongolians.
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Siezing and retaining control is a massive feat, which goes to show exactly how powerful the Mongolian empire was at this time.
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The Mongols stretching themselves out beyond Asia was an impressive feat, but quite possibly lead to them being spread too thin, which resulted in the collapse of the empire.
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Kublai divided the mongolian empire into sects, initiated methods of governing and maintennance of the massive empire established by Ghenghis Khan,
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Contrary to the conquoring of Russia, this epic failure of the Mongols shows that they did have limitations, and suffered defeats.
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Mali was a great and powerful empire, home to quite possibly THE single richest man in history; Mansa Musa
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Mansa Musa made his way to Mecca, bringing so much gold into the surrounding areas on his journey that it crashed the gold market in those areas. A clear representataion of his undeniable wealth that was reported by many sources, which is what led historians to believe the claims of Mansa Musa's wealth.
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It wiped out one third of the entire European population. Enough said.