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How Successful Was The Tang Dynasty

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I believe that the Tang Dynasty was the most successful. This is because of many reasons. But before we delve into the reasons that China was a great Dynasty, we have to define what a great dynasty is. To me, success during a dynasty means having a strong government that has no corruption and having a good daily life. A strong government means having no corruption and having a balanced tax system. Which means not too high or low taxes. Not too high so that the overall population becomes poor, and not too low that the overall population becomes too rich and revolts, and so that the government has the means to make infrastructure. This leads to a balanced population that is happy and at home in their country. These things combined makes a Dynasty Great, and is exactly what the Tang Dynasty did.
My first reason why the Tang Dynasty is the best Dynasty that China ever had is because they created the civil service exam. The civil service exam would revolutionize the Tang Dynasty for the rest of its time, and this is because it gave everyone fair and equal representation within the test, but only the best would succeed. This lead to a meritocracy within the government of the Tang Dynasty. …show more content…

This makes the Tang Dynasty very influential in the world all the way up to the present. This also helped indirectly with whatever use that invention was given. For example paper and woodblock printing greatly reinvented education by giving everyone the tools necessary to write on, which is the only way that people communicated over a longer period of time. This also helped the Chinese to keep very detailed records, which greatly helped historians of today. Meanwhile gunpowder, while it was invented in the Tang Dynasty, it was only put into use for warfare in the Song Dynasty, and in the Tang it was only used for fireworks and

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