TangP1

**Location of Capital:** Chang an, in Today's Xi'an City, Shanxi Province **Emperors:** Li Yuan, Li Shimin, Lizhi
 * Founder :** Liyuan founded the Tang dynasty
 * Ruled from :** 618 A.D to 907 A.D
 * Capital:** Chang'an

> **Li Shimin**(Tai Zong) - ruled from 0627 A.D- 0649 A.D > **Li Zhi** (Goa Zong) -0650 A.D- 0683 A.D. > > > > **__PICTURES OF ARTWORK__** > > > > > > >
 * **Li Yuan**(Gao Zu) -0618 A.D- 0626 A.D.

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__**The Xuanwu Gate Coup (626AD) -**__ Li shimin killed his siblings after learning his elder brothers had hatched a plot to get rid of him. He is still one of the intelligent emperors in chinese history.=====

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__**The Event of Dew (835AD) -**__ The empire fell under the control of the eunuches. The emperors were killed as they pleased. Some officails made a plan to kill the eunuches and destroy there power, so they told the emporers there was a pomergranate tree that was covered by dew in the palance. while they approached the tree a group of soliders hid near the tree prepared to kill. They did not have enough soliders so the plan failed and all the officails that participated were killed.=====

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 * __The Rebellion of An and Shi (756AD-763AD) -__** In 756AD a high ranking general of the Turkish descent rebelled. The rebellion lasted seven years and two months and weakened Tang dynasty. After Shi Siming died in 761AD, his son, Shi Zhaoyi, took over until the rebellion was over in 763AD. After this war the Tang entered its middle-and-late period.=====

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 * __The Rebellion of Huang Chao (874AD-884AD)__** - This rebellion was the biggest one in the history of the Tang dynasty. All of china was under the rebel and 23 years later, in 907AD, the throne was taken by Zhu Quangzong who was a general of the Tang but surrendered from the rebels of Huang Chao.=====

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In 881 AD a rebellion under Huang Ch'ao's rule ruined much of central China and destroyed the capital at Chang'an. The T'ang emperors were forced to move their capital east all the way to Luoyang. They never gained power again. This is how the tang dynasty ended.=====

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