The reign of Emperor Shengzong from 982 to 1031 represented the height of the Liao dynasty's power. Shengzong oversaw successful military campaigns against the Chinese Song dynasty and the Korean Gory ...
Main article: Emperor Taizu of LiaoAbaoji (Mongolian: Ambagyan), who later became Emperor Taizu of Liao, was born in 872, the son of the chief of the Yila tribe. At that time, the Yila tribe was the l ...
Further information: Chinese mathematics and Chinese geographyInverted image of a stone rubbing, comprising a map of eastern China, complete with detailed rivers. The area of the map covered by land f ...
Main article: Society of the Song dynastyA painting of a play being staged in a courtyard. In the center, a man in loose black robes appears in mid-bow or mid-dance. To the left, two men dressed as gu ...
Although weakened and pushed south along the Huai River, the Southern Song found new ways to bolster its strong economy and defend its own state against the Jin dynasty. They had able military officer ...
Background and ascension Li Yan was born on June 8, 862, at the eastern palace in the Tang imperial capital Chang'an, as the fifth son of then-reigning Emperor Yizong. His mother was Emperor Yizong's ...
In and around Chang'an Huang Chao then moved into the Tang palace and declared himself the emperor of a new state of Qi. He created his wife Lady Cao empress, while making Shang Rang, Zhao Zhang (趙璋 ...
Main article: An Lushan RebellionThe Tang dynasty, established in 618, had already passed its golden age and entered its long decline beginning with the An Lushan Rebellion by Sogdian general An Lusha ...
Nanzhao comprised many ethnic and linguistic groups. Some historians believe that the majority of the population were of the Bai people, but that the elite spoke a variant of Nuosu (also called Yi), a ...
The Jiedushi (traditional Chinese: 節度使; simplified Chinese: 节度使; pinyin: jiédùshǐ) were regional military governors in China during the Tang dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms pe ...
Main article: Yan (Anshi)The imperial forces were helped by internal dissent in the newly formed dynasty. An Lushan was killed by his son, An Qingxu, in late January 757. (His father's violent paranoi ...
Beginning in 742, Eurasia entered a thirteen-year period of major political turmoil, with the regional empires generally suffering "a major rebellion, revolution, or dynastic change." In this year, th ...
Work is being done to restore in part the North Aral Sea. Irrigation works on the Syr Darya have been repaired and improved to increase its water flow, and in October 2003, the Kazakh government annou ...
The Aral Sea formed about 5.5 million years ago due to a fall in sea level and the uplift of the Elburz and Caucasus Mountains. It is generally believed that the Amu Darya did not flow into the shallo ...
Emperor Xuanzong, after becoming retired emperor, largely allowed Emperor Suzong to coordinate the campaign against Yan, but at times nevertheless stepped in to make decisions. For example, in spring ...
