The Chinese Dynasties

The period of the dynasty that unified China, the Sui Dynasty began the year 580 C.E. and lasted until 618 C.E. I was founded by an officer of the Northern Zhou, Yang Chien (Emperor Wen Ti), and his son and successor, Emperor Yang Ti. As an emperor, Wen Ti in his early actions restored the Buddhists rights, their clergy, and ended suppression of Daoism. Emperor Wen Ti achieved the unification of China during the Sui era, also the central government was reformed, institute the conscription of community servants from all ethnics and social classes; and established a uniform legal code that regulated land, taxes, rewards and reprimand, with the exception of the military all arms were ban.

Northern and Southern China reunited, forced labor of men and women was use to build the Grand Canal, which "extended north from Hangzhou across the Yangzi to Yangzhou and then northwest to the region of Louyang"( ZenZuu – TAHITITI, n.d.). The Great Wall of China was fortified by the northern borders two capitals were restructuring, and another capital was built in Yangchow. Confucianism began to reclaim recognition; and the noble classes increase their participation in society. After Wen Ti collapse, his son and successor, Emperor Yang Ti assumes the throne, with the support of his mother, the gentry and the military. Yang Ti was the opposite of his father, and was considering like taking over the imperial supremacy, and his reign was of extravagant spending, threatening and forcing his subedits to ruthless labor. Aside all the treasury money he spent and the unkindness to govern his people, most of his policies were a continuation of his father's. Yang Ti had ostentatious ambitions to expand China, and wanted to take over ...

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...ght, Buddhist, and Taoist, became the imperial ideology from late Song times until the late nineteenth century.

The effect f this creed was to slow down the common development of pre modern China, ensuing several years of stability of government, social, and spiritual strength and the delay of cultural and institutional change until the 19th century. After the Battle of Yamen in 1279, the Yuan army crushed the Song resistance. The last ruler of the Song Empire, Emperor Huaizong of Song committed suicide, along with Prime Minister and 800 members of the royal clan. With the decline of the Song Empire, China experienced almost 700 hundred years of renovation, confrontations for power, deception, spiritual growth, military scuffles and wisely learned to deal with all these progressions with the reservations that still differentiate China’s society.