dity to certain powerful allies in the east to help centralize china as the Ch'in had. The country flourished, and taxes were cut and graniers were once again overflowing so as to hedge against famines which can frequent China. There was an out pouring of culture and the country did well and the government had massive cash reserves. One of the greatest emperors in chinese history was a Han named Wu-ti, he was young assertive and made China proper greatly. Wu-ti cut back on the lords and merchants powers, and made reforms. He was aggressive in his foreign policy and this was to build power for the eminant show down with the Hsiung-nu nomads of the north and west boarders. He conqured vast areas of Asia and set up a tributary system where the local rules remained in power under him, while providing gifts to the emperor.Under Wu-ti China saw a great cultural flowering and produced China's greatest historian Ssu-man Ch'ien the most estemmed Han poet Ssu-ma Hsiang-ju and the most infulential Han philosopher Tung Chung-shu. Confucian ideals were re-adopted , schools were formed for teaching of Confucian ways, and it was the beginning of the civil service exams. With the end of Wu-ti, the dynasty began to decline and he was succeded by a number of inferior Han rulers, who were often seen as crule. It would seem that the Han's heavenly madate expired and the death of Wu-ti was the beginning of the end of the Han, as china was plagued by natural disaster, landlord and aristocratic rule. The Han dynasty offically ended in 220 ad and the country was once again divided throwing china into their dark ages. China was separated into north and south and the county as a whole weakend. Barbarian invasion was rampant, and the Han capitols were destroyed by the Hsiung-nuThe Sui were to finnally reunite China led by Yang Chien in 589 AD. The Sui reunited north and south China, rebuilt infrastructure. The Sui were very ambitous in the rebulding of the infra...
