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| 336140502 | Wendi | man who was a member of a chinese noble family; seizes throne and declares himself emperor.(sui dynasty), gains support of neighboring nomadic tribes, extends empire across northern china, and lowers taxes and builds granaries | 0 | |
| 336140503 | Yangdi | Son of Wendi, murders father to reach throne (Sui dynasty) he strengthens confucian education system, restores civil service exam, built temples, palaces and canals through peasant labor, led series of unsuccessful wars, suffers defeats by Asian turks, killed by his own officials | 1 | |
| 336140504 | Li Yuan | Duke of the Tang Empire, court official of Yangi, (Tang) Turns against Yangi at the end of his reign, orchestrated Yangdi's assassination, emerges as leader, but then steps down and allows his son to be emperor | 2 | |
| 336140505 | Tang Taizong | Li Yuan's son, repairs great wall, standing frontier armies, extends empire to Tibet, Vietnam, Korea, and Afghanistan, rebuilds the bureaucracy (revives confucian ideology, strengthen scholarly gentry class, moves capital to Changan | 3 | |
| 336140506 | Emperor Xuabzong | strenghtnes bureaucratic sustem, patornizes the arts, looses two wifes, infatuated with concubine Yang Guifei | 4 | |
| 336140507 | Yang Guifiei | Concubine of Emperor Xuanzong who uses her position to pack royal court with relatives and supporters, leads Xuanzong to neglect political and military affairs. | 5 | |
| 336580313 | Empress Wu | ruler that makes Buddhism the state religion | 6 | |
| 336580314 | General An Lushan | revolted against the Tang Empire | 7 | |
| 336580315 | Zhao Kuangyin | scholarly military general, became the new leader of China after the downfall of the Tang empire | 8 | |
| 336580316 | Emperor Wuzong | opens persecutions against Buddhists; fears increased influence of monasteries | 9 |
