Examples of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms in the following topics:
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- The Song dynasty was an era of Chinese history that began in 960 and continued until 1279; it succeeded the tumultuous Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period and saw many technological and cultural innovations.
- The Song dynasty was an era of Chinese history that began in 960 and continued until 1279.
- It succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, and was followed by the Yuan dynasty.
- The Song dynasty was divided into two distinct periods, Northern and Southern.
- The Later Zhou was the last of the Five Dynasties that had controlled northern China after the fall of the Tang dynasty in 907.
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- After the difficult suppression of the An Lushan Rebellion, the jiedushi increased their powers and accelerated the disintegration of the Tang dynasty.
- It significantly weakened the Tang dynasty and led to the loss of the Western Regions.
- Eventually the jiedushi ushered in the political division of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, a period marked by continuous infighting among the rival kingdoms, dynasties, and regional regimes established by rival jiedushi.
- The An Lushan Rebellion and its aftermath greatly weakened the centralized bureaucracy of the Tang dynasty, especially in regards to its perimeters.
- He established the Later Liang, which inaugurated the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
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- The Tang dynasty (Chinese: 唐朝) was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
- Various kingdoms and states paid tribute to the Tang court, and the Tang also conquered or subdued several regions that it indirectly controlled through a protectorate system.
- The Tang dynasty was largely a period of progress and stability in the first half of its rule, followed by the An Lushan Rebellion and the decline of central authority in the later half of the dynasty.
- Decline of the Sui Dynasty and the Founding of the Tang
- After a series of costly and disastrous military campaigns against Goguryeo, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, ended in defeat by 614, the Sui dynasty disintegrated under a sequence of popular revolts culminating in the assassination of Emperor Yang by his ministers in 618.
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- The Sui Dynasty was followed by the Tang Dynasty, which ruled from June 18, 618 until June 1, 907 CE, when the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period began.
- The Tang dynasty was largely a period of progress and stability in the first half of the dynasty's rule, until the An Lushan Rebellion and the decline of central authority in the later half of the dynasty.
- From the Tang Dynasty (618–907) onwards, brick and stone architecture gradually became more common and replaced wooden edifices.
- Chang'an was the capital city of the Tang Dynasty, as in the earlier Han and Jin dynasties.
- The roughly square dimensions of the city was built with six miles of outer walls running east to west and more than five miles of outer walls running north to south.
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- Emperor Taizu of Song (r. 960–976) had unified the empire by conquering other lands during his reign, ending the upheaval of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
- From its inception under Taizu, the Song dynasty alternated between warfare and diplomacy with the ethnic Khitans of the Liao dynasty in the northeast and with the Tanguts of the Western Xia in the northwest.
- The Song dynasty used military force in an attempt to quell the Liao dynasty and recapture the Sixteen Prefectures, a territory under Khitan control that was traditionally considered part of China proper.
- There was also a significant war fought against the Lý dynasty of Vietnam from 1075 to 1077 over a border dispute and the Song's severing of commercial relations with the Đại Việt kingdom.
- The Jurchen conquest of northern China and the shift of capitals from Kaifeng to Lin'an was the dividing line between the Northern and Southern Song dynasties.
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- As the Han Dynasty government weakened over time and ultimately collapsed, the empire fractured into the war-torn Three Kingdoms period.
- In 184 CE, two major Daoist rebellions—the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion—broke out.
- He Jin wanted to exterminate the Ten Attendants, a group of influential eunuch officials.
- This portrait of Dong Zhuo dates from a Qing Dynasty edition of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
- The Three Kingdoms in 262 CE after the fall of the Han dynasty.
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- As in the Old Kingdom, stone was most often reserved for tombs and temples, while bricks were used for palaces, fortresses, everyday houses, and town walls.
- It is one of the five remaining pyramids of the original eleven pyramids at Dahshur in Egypt.
- The walls of the fort were about five meters thick and ten meters high .
- Middle Kingdom pyramids consist of mud brick and clay encased in limestone.
- The White Chapel of Senusret I at Karnak is a good example of the fine quality of art and architecture produced during the Twelfth Dynasty.
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- The Sunga Dynasty usurped the Maurya Dynasty, and parts of the
empire were incorporated into the Indo-Greek Kingdom.
- Pusyamitra was succeeded
after 36 years by his son, Agnimitra, beginning the dynasty of ten Sunga rulers
overall.
- They conducted wars with both foreign and indigenous powers, including
the Kalinga, the Satavahana Dynasty, and the Indo-Greek Kingdom.
- Buddhism was favored in the Indo-Greek Kingdom.
- He converted to Buddhism and expanded the Indo-Greek Kingdom.
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- The Han Dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty (221–207 BCE) and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms (220–280 CE).
- Confucianism originated as an "ethical-sociopolitical teaching" during the Spring and Autumn Period, but during the Han Dynasty it developed metaphysical and cosmological elements.
- Dong was a scholar and minor official who aggregated the ethical Confucian ideas of ritual, filial piety, and harmonious relationships with the five phases (i.e., the natural cycles which governed Heaven, Earth, and Man) and yin-yang cosmologies.
- In 136 BCE, Emperor Wu abolished all academic chairs (boshi 博) not dealing with the Confucian Five Classics, and encouraged nominees for office to receive a Confucian-based education at the Imperial University that he established in 124 BCE.
- The Han Dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty (221–207 BCE) and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms (220–280 CE).
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- The Delhi Sultanate refers to the five short-lived Muslim kingdoms of Turkic and Pashtun (Afghan) origin that ruled the territory of Delhi between 1206 and 1526 CE.
- However, the fusion of indigenous and Muslim customs and styles under the Delhi Sultanate gave rise to the beginnings of Indo-Islamic art and architecture, which reached its zenith in later years under the Mughal emperors.
- The walls of the minaret are covered with Indian floral motifs and verses from the Quran.
- There is little architecture remaining from the Sayyid and Lodi periods, but a few fine examples survive in the Lodi Gardens in Delhi, including the tomb of Mohammad Shah, the last sultan of the Sayyid Dynasty, built in 1444.
- One of the earliest and best known of the Delhi Sultanate architectural monuments, and also the tallest minaret in India.