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| This map shows the expansion of the Sui Dynasty along with neighboring ethnic groups, kingdoms, and tribes around the year of 600 AD. |
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| China was unified for the first time between the north and south after a century of division. |
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| Emperor Wen of Sui was the founder the the Sui dynasty |
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| Chang'an was the capital of the Sui Dynasty; was later renamed Daxing. |
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| A economic reform created to reduce the rich to poor social gap that resulted in enhanced agricultural productivity, as well as government centralisation and reforms, creating a new model of governance after centuries of division. |
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| Three Departments and Six Ministries |
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An administrative system that allowed the Department of State Affairs to control the six ministries ( Ministries of Personnel, Revenue, Rites, Defense, Justice and Works) under a Secretariat who was responsible for proposing and drafting all imperial decrees; was officially instituted during the Sui Dynasty. |
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| Coinage was re-unified and standardized throughout the dynasty. |
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Religion:
Buddhism was largely encouraged throughout the empire, which unified the multi-cultural China of that time period. |
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| The fall of the Sui Dynasty |
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The empire’s fall directly correlates with the high demands that the government placed on the people of the empire, who had to pay significant amounts of money on taxes and were forced to endure grueling labor.
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| Architectual Accomplishments |
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Although the resources were strained from the construction of the Grand Canal, it was still a monumental engineering feat, along with the reconstruction of the Great Wall of China.
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Emperor Wen
The firest emperor of the Sui Dynasty; initiated multiple reforms that were geared to strengthen his empire for upcoming wars that would reunify China. |
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| To conquer the South, Emperor Wen assembled a large armada consisting of thousands of boats to battle the opposing forces of the Chen Dynasty on the Yangtze River. |
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| Ethnic Groups of the Army |
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Emperor Wen employed Xianbei and other Chinese ethnic groups to battle the Chen, along with the service of aborigines from southeastern Sichuan (which were recently conquered by the Sui)
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Yangtze River
The location of the Sui-Chen battle; the Sui won. |
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| Emperor Wen established granaries as sources of food, which helped regulate market prices from the taxes placed on crops. |
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Emperor Yang
Came to thrown after his father's death; extended the empire, but didn't seek support from nomads. |
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| Under the rule of Emperor Yang, Cufanian education and the Confucian examination system was restored for the bureaucrats; this caused loss of support by the nomads. |
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| Emperor Yang restored Confucian education, started many expensive construction projects, and was involved in many costly wars, but because of his love of luxury, he lost public support and was assassinated. |
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| The Fall of the Sui Dynasty |
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| The biggest factor that added to the fall of the Sui Dynasty was a series of expeditions into the Korean Peninsula to invade Goguryeo. After 4 main campaigns, the failure of the military caused the downward spiral of the Sui Dynasty. |
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The Grand Canal
One of the Sui Dynasty's greatest accomplishments. It extended from the Hangzhou region across the Yangzi to Yangzhou and the then northwest in the region of Luoyang. |
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