HIST-0040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Zoroastrianism, Sui Dynasty, Manichaeism
Document Summary
Accelerated the shift of population to the south. China"s most important transportation route until well in the the qing dynasty. Increased economic exchange between the yangzi and northern china. The cost of failed campaigns - resources and human life, political disarray. Serious economic hardship of the peasantry, government was not able to provide resources to those affected by the flooding. Dissidents assassinated the emperor li yuan, unhappy with his failed campaigns. The sui dynasty set the political, institutional, and economic foundations for the following tang dynasty. The sui unified china under indigenous chinese. The chinese upper classes -- the families of non-chinese descent. All tang rulers : half chinese, half barbarian . He was aware of this because he was born and raised on the western frontier. [630] successful military campaign against eastern turkic nomads. Central asian people and minor kingdoms in northwestern china.
