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The Tang-Song Transition - Coggle Diagram

- - - - inherited the throne through his daughter, who was selected to be a consort for the imperial crown prince
  - - - Koguryo was invaded in 612, 613, and 614
    - - was rescued by his maternal cousin Li Yuan (566-635), the Duke of Tang
        
        The Sui Emperor was suspicious of him, and ordered two officers to keep their eyes on him
        
        trapped the two officers and rose in open rebellion against the Sui emperor in 617
        
        in 618, the second Sui emperor was strangled to death by his army
        
        Li Yuan ascended the throne as the founding emperor of a new Tang Dynasty
- - - - several different academic degrees came to be offered
  - - - Chan
  - - - as much as 80% of the country's military force fell under the control of largely independent frontier commands
      - central imperial government was unable to collect taxes from large swathes of China
      - eunuchs became the real power holders
      - the volume of foreign trade continued to increase after the rebellion
  - - - fabricated a new vision of an "orthodox transmission" of the Confucian Way, or Dao
    - - helped cement in place a powerful vision of a unitary China that had supposedly existed since the dawn of time
- - - - a Paekche prince proclaimed by the Japanese as the new king, an expedition was launched to restore Paekche
        
        in 663, Tang and Sillan navies sank four hundred Japanese warships
  - - - killed the king and by appointing a figurehead monarch, assumed the role of strongman himself
      - his son Chon Namsaeng, defected to Tang
        
        contributed to the final Tang and Sillan conquest of his own former kingdom in 688
  - - - A Council of Nobles remained highly aristocratic, graded in terms of bone rank
      - Bone Rank
        
        determined the highest possible title to which a man could aspire, the maximum size of his home, and even what clothing he could wear
        
        after a Sillan king died in 632, royal bone rank of songgol, or Hallowed Bone, became extinct and Sillan kings shared the next lower True Bone rank with the top aristocracy
        
        persons of Head Rank Six was the next highest rank below True Bone
      - a framework of a Chinese-style bureaucratic government proclaimed in 520 with new legal codes that established seventeen official titles
  - - - the dynasty's founder was a man named Wang Kon