Under this period of Pax Sinica, the Silk Road, the most important premodern trade route, reached its golden age, where Persian and Sogdian merchants benefited from the commerce between the East and the West. At the same time, the Chinese empire welcomed foreign cultures, making the Tang capital the most cosmopolitan city in the world. Thousands of foreigners lived in the city, including Turks, Iranians, Indians and others from along the Silk Road, as well as Japanese, Koreans and Malay.
The turning point came after the An Lushan rebellion, which destroyed the prosperity that took years to build up. It left the dynasty weakened and for the remaining years the Tang never regained its glory days of the 7th and 8th century. The Tang were eventually driven out of Central Asia, and imperial China did not regain ground in that region until the Mongol led regime during the Yuan Dynasty.
Near the end of the Tang Dynasty, regional military governors (jiedushi) became increasingly powerful, and began to function more like independent regimes on their own right. In 907, after almost 300 years in power, the dynasty was ended when one of the military governors, Zhu Wen, deposed the last emperor and took the throne for himself, thereby beginning the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.
2006-06-07 19:28:48
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answered by Mr. D 2
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The Singapore Tang Dynasty Village went bust. The cost of maintaining it outstrip the overall visitors.
This was ok in the beginning as it had the local population visiting, but as that crowd dwindled, and the location being in the farther west of Singapore, it was doomed to closure.
2006-06-10 06:47:40
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answered by hespy 5
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got bought out and replaced by poon-tang dynasty village and is attracting guys from all over the world.
2006-06-07 20:07:17
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answered by reyes 4
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