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Sui Dynasty

• 581 AD 618 AD

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Reuniting China

• After the Han Dynasty ended in 220 AD, China
  divided in dozens of rival kingdoms.
• Emperor Wen (also called Yang Jian) founded the
  Sui Dynasty after reuniting the Northern and
  Southern rival kingdoms through a war violent
  campaign.
• Sui Yangde was the second and last Sui Emperor.

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Sui Yangdi
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Why We Remember Sui Yangdi

• Completed the Grand Canal with forced labor
• When there werent enough men to do the work, he
  drafted women to work on the canal.
• Because of taxes, war policies, and forced labor
  he was generally hated.
• So, someone murdered him, and that was the end of
  the Sui Dynasty.

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Empress Xiao
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Tang Dynasty

• 618 AD 907 AD

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Tang Dynasty

• Restored merit-based civil service system
• Distributed land to peasants
• Took over Tibet
• Traded with Southwest Asia
• Invention of printing
• The Diamond Sutra
• the earliest known printed document in the world

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Tang Dynasty

• Gunpowder invented
• Began to make steel
• Started using cotton
• Invented the firelance, which could shoot out a
  fireball reaching up to 40 yards
• Silk Road re-established for the first time since
  the fall of the Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire.

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Song Dynasty

• 960 AD 1279 AD

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Song Dynasty

• Immediately had trouble with the Mongolian
  population to the north of them
• Lost control of Tibet
• Retreated south and made the capital Hangzhou
• The Song Dynasty was the China described by Marco
  Polo
• Eventually overthrown by the Mongols