Essay On The Tang Dynasty

During the third century B.C.E, the Qin dynasty has risen to power on the Wei River in northwest China. Qin is also pronounced as “Chin”. The Qin where ruthless people in the late Zhou era. The emperor of the Qin dynasty believed in unifying China and practice Legalism. After the Qin defeated the Zhou’s they began to unify China. They started by conquering divided parts of China, like the civilized parts and the Yangzi River basin, and also new lands. The Qin emperor was the first Chinese emperor. He took the title emperor and he followed simple practice like commanded bordered states to build walls to protect themselves from raiders. He would later join all those northern walls together, making it into one wall that would extend 1400 miles

The dynasty live on taxes, the capital had the largest population in the year 750. One of the reasons for the success of the dynasty is that it’s capital was a trade center for Central Asia. “A Chinese dynasty is like an accordion, first expanding into the territories of its neighbors and then contracting back to its densely populate core area”. The principal threats to the Tang state were from Tibetans in the west, Turks in the northwest and north, and Khitan Mongols in Manchuria. A four-tier policy was implemented to protect the borders and if failed an army would be sent. Other tier of defenses were the use of nomads against nomads, defense along the borders like walls and others. The Tang dynasty began to crumble with continuous rebellion, neglect of the government and natural disasters. Temcejin was the first and founder of the Mongols empire. He was a chief of the Mongols and had survival qualities. He united all Mongols tribes and earned the title Genghis. Also was elected as their great Khan (that means great ruler). The Mongols population wasn’t as large as places that they capture, but because of there knowledge in war tactics they were able to conquered very large