Tang+Dynasty

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=**Tang Dynasty**= The Tang Dynasty was an imperial dynasty of china preceded by the Sui Dynasty and followed by the Five dynasties and Ten kingdoms period. It was founded by the Li family, who seized power during the decline and collapse of the Sui Dynasty. The new dynasty is a new arose in China in 618 when a former Sui official overthrew the old government. This dynasty, the Tang would rule for nearly 300 years. The dynasty was briefly interrupted when Empress Wu Zeitan seized the throne, proclaiming the Second Zhou dynasty and becoming the only Chinese Empress regnant. Historians view the Tang dynasty as a golden age of Chinese civilization. One of its greatest rulers was Taizong. He helped unity China through his programs, including reform of the military, creation oh law codes, and a land reform policy known as the equal field system. During his reign, culture flourished. Many of China's finest poets wrote while Xuanzong ruled. The Tang dynasty also included the only woman to rule China---Empress Wu. Her methods were sometimes vicious, but she was intelligent and talented. After the Tang dynasty fell, China entered another brief period of chaos and disorder, with separate kingdoms completing for power. In fact, China was so divided during this period that it is known as five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. The disorder only lasted 53 years, though from 907 to 960. The Tang had three departements, which were obliged to draft, review, and incomplement policies respectively. There were also six ministries under the admnistrations that inplemented policy, each of which was assigned different tasks.

=Empress Wu= Empress Wu was the only women to rule the tang dynasty in 655.After her husband died emperor Wenxuan,Wu knew that there sons couldn't rule the tang dynasty so she kept the power to herself and ruled with a iron fist.Those who threatened her power risk death.Empress Wu wasn't well liked but she was respected for bring stability and prosperity to China. Empress Wu Zetian The importance to history of Empress Wu Zetian's period of political and military leadership includes the major expansion of the Chinese empire, extending it far beyond its previous territitorial limits. deeps into Central Asia,and the completion of the conquest of the upper Korean Peninsula. Wu Zeitan aslo had a monumental impact in regard to the statuary of the Longmen Grottoes and the "Wordless Stele" at the Qianling Mausoleum, as well as the constrution of some major buildings and broze castings which no longer survive. Despite these important aspects of her reign, together with the suggestions of modern scholarship as to the long-term effects of some of her innovations in governance, much of the attention to Wu Zetian has been to her gender, as the anomalous female supreme sovereign of a unified Chinese empire, holding during part of her lifetime the title of Huangdi. Besides her career as a political leader, Wu Zetian also had an active family life. Although family relasionships sometimes became problematic, Wu Zetian was the mother of three sons who served stints as emperor Xuanzong of the restored Tang dynasty, ruling during its "Golden Age".

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During (618-907) the Tang Dynasty contribute alot of the development of astronomy,medicines, and printing technique in Chinese history. The famous astromer,Nonk Yixing,was the firsrt to successful measure the length of the meridan line.The well-known King of medicine,Sun Simiao, wrote a medical book Qianjin Fag(Thousand Golden Prescriptions)which was considered the treasure of traditional Chinese medicine.In 868,the Chinese translate of the Diamond Sutra was printed, howadays rocagnized as the earliest engraved in the word.=====