Asia

CHAPTER 11 Inner and Eastern Asia, 400?1200 I?? seq NLA \r 0 \h . The Sui and Tang Empires, 581?755 A?? seq NL1 \r 0 \h . Reunification Under the Sui and Tang 1?? seq NL_a \r 0 \h . The Sui Empire reunified China and established a government based on Confucianism but heavily influenced by Buddhism. The Sui?s rapid decline and fall may have been due to its having spent large amounts of resources on a number of ambitious construction, canal, irrigation, and military projects. 2?? seq NL_a \r 0 \h . The Tang Empire was established in 618. The Tang state carried out a program of territorial expansion, avoided over-centralization, and combined Turkic influence with Chinese Confucian traditions. B?? seq NL1 \r 0 \h . Buddhism and the Tang Empire

CHAPTER 4 The Mediterranean and Middle East, ?2000?500?b.c.e. I?? seq NLA \r 0 \h . The Cosmopolitan Middle East, 1700?1100 b.c.e. A?? seq NL1 \r 0 \h . Western Asia 1?? seq NL_a \r 0 \h . In the southern portion of western Asia, the Kassites ruled Babylonia during this period. Babylonia did not pursue territorial conquest. In the north, the Assyrians had their origins in the northern Tigris area. They were involved in trade in tin and silver. 2?? seq NL_a \r 0 \h . The Hittites had their capital in Anatolia, used horse-drawn chariots, and had access to important copper, silver, and iron deposits. 3?? seq NL_a \r 0 \h . During the second millennium b.c.e. Mesopotamian political and cultural concepts spread across much of western Asia. B?? seq NL1 \r 0 \h . New Kingdom Egypt