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The Han Dynasty
Socials Project: Tang Dynasty

ruled during chinas golden age founded by a government leader name li haun who was replaced by his son who was an amazing leader the tang made china a flourishing and cosmopolitan empire expanded as far as Afghanistan making Korea, Tibet and Vietnam tributary states china had its first and only empress named Wu

Education and the examination system

They built schools and standardized the courses so that all students studied the same topics.
The Tang were the first government to provide schools in China. the wealthy had tutors studied books and did test to get into schools
2 or 3 percent got into the high range

Art and Science

art style more dynamic and realistic painted scenes of everyday life (some) conveyed a sense of vitality and movement in contrast introduced chairs and stools

Literature

The tang poetry collation had over 48000 poems written by 2200 poets
China honored and followed strict rules about the amount of syllables that could be used and the rhyme scheme but allowed new styles of poetry to be developed

The Downfall

An Lushan was the commander of chinas northern army.
AL (^^) was angry at not receiving a post he wanted.
In 755 Al rebelled and marched on Chang'an, forcing Xuanzong (A great emperor) to flee west.
Xuanzong gave the empire to his son because of depression
Xuanzong's son fought for 8 years until they sort of won but they never fully recovered and the Tang Dynasty ended in 907 and was replaced by five dynasties.

The Tang Dynasty

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