Tang China
Cosmopolitan imperial monarchy
Tang China leans hardest toward Authority, Free trade and Multicultural.
The 12 axes, with receipts
Centralised prefectures, until frontier generals broke away.
Emperors governing through an examination-based bureaucracy.
Tight control of urban life, with curfews in the capital.
Cosmopolitan centre of a tributary world order.
Militia-farmer soldiers and wide expansion into Central Asia.
Chang’an welcomed Sogdians, Persians and Arabs with their own faiths.
The "equal-field" system allotted state land to families.
Officials ran and regulated the capital’s markets.
The height of the Silk Road.
Patronised Buddhism and Daoism, then purged Buddhism in 845.
Confucian family order, with unusually prominent women.
Woodblock printing and other inventions.
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