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The Cosmopolitan Empire of Tang

The Cosmopolitan Empire of Tang. To the tune of "Frere Jacques"/Brother John/Liang zhi laohu:. Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, Song! Sui, Tang, Song! Yuan-Ming-Qing-Republic, Yuan-Ming-Qing-Republic, Mao Zedong! Mao Zedong!. Major Dates.

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The Cosmopolitan Empire of Tang

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  1. The Cosmopolitan Empire of Tang

  2. To the tune of "Frere Jacques"/Brother John/Liang zhi laohu: Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, Song! Sui, Tang, Song! Yuan-Ming-Qing-Republic, Yuan-Ming-Qing-Republic, Mao Zedong! Mao Zedong!

  3. Major Dates • Sui dynasty 589-618; unification • Tang/T'ang dynasty 618-907 • Empress Wu's usurpation: the Zhou/Chou dynasty 690-705 • The An Lu-shan Rebellion of 755 and the demise of the early imperial system

  4. Yang Liben – Paintings of a Han Wendi, Sui Wendi

  5. The Capital:Chang’an(remnant of a stone inscription found in the 11th c.)

  6. The Capital

  7. The Daming Palace layout

  8. The Daming Palace

  9. Daming Palace architecture stye- example

  10. A walled block (Xingqing Palace)

  11. Tang Highways and Canals

  12. The empress and her ladies at music, by Zhou Wenju

  13. Todai ji (Great Eastern Temple), Nara, Japan

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