Volume III · The Houses
Tang dynasty
China; founded by Li Yuan (Emperor Gaozu) of the Li family in 618 after the collapse of the Sui.
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01How it began
China; founded by Li Yuan (Emperor Gaozu) of the Li family in 618 after the collapse of the Sui.
02At its height
7th-8th centuries under Taizong and Xuanzong; a cosmopolitan golden age of poetry, trade along the Silk Road, and military reach into Central Asia.
Territory in the record
China proper plus protectorates extending into Central Asia, the Tarim Basin, and parts of Korea and Vietnam.
03What became of it
Severely weakened by the An Lushan Rebellion (755-763); fragmented and fell in 907, leading to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
04What remained
A high point of Chinese civilization in poetry (Li Bai, Du Fu), Buddhism, the expanded civil-service examination system, and law codes copied across East Asia.
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