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City of the Wei Valley in eastern China. It became the captial of the Qin and early Han Empires.
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Chang'an
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The 1,100-mile waterway lnking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the Sui Empire.
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Grand Canal
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Empire unifying China and part of Central Asia, founded 618 and ended 907. The Tang emperors presided over a magnificent court at their capital.
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Tang Empire
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One of the founders of the Tang Empire and its second emperor. He led the expansion of the empire into Central Asia.
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Li Shimin
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Country centered on the high, mountain-bounded plateau north of India. Tibetan political power occasionally extended farther to the north and west between the seventh and thirteenth centuries.
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Tibet
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A system in which, from the time of the Han Empire, countries in East and Southeast Asia not under the direct control of empires based in China nevertheless enrolled as tributary states, acknowledging the superiority of the emperors in China in exchange for trading rights of strategic alliances.
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Tributary System
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"Great Vehicle" branch
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Mahayana Buddhism
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