16 déc. 600 - Important societal factors: ~50 million people -Capitol: Chang'an, largest city in world -Taoism (official religion of Tang) -Confucianism -Buddhism (brought from India via Silk Road) -Civil exams, based on mastery of Confucian texts --enforced meritocracy --created scholar-officials -Golden Age of Chinese literature and art

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The Tang capital was the largest city in the world at its time, the population of the city wards and its suburban countryside reaching 2 million inhabitants.[25] The Tang capital was very cosmopolitan, with ethnicities of Persia, Central Asia, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Tibet, India, and many other places living within. Naturally, with this plethora of different ethnicities living in Chang'an, there were also many different practiced religions, such as Buddhism, Nestorian Christianity, Manichaeism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, and Islam being practiced within.

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