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The Battle of Talas: Confrontation between the Tang Dynasty and the Arab Empire

Yang Jun Gao Xia

90K0

In the middle of the eighth century AD, the Tang Dynasty and the Abbasid Dynasty fought fiercely in Central Asia, and the famous Battle of Talos broke out. Due to geographical reasons, various small countries in Central Asia were also involved in this duel between the two dynasties. The Battle of Talos ended with the defeat of the Chinese. Tens of thousands of Tang troops were killed and injured. The prosperous Tang Dynasty also suffered heavy losses in the Anshi Rebellion and slowly came out of its past glory. Most of Central Asia was gradually controlled by the Arab Empire. However, the occurrence of the Battle of Talas spread China's papermaking technology throughout the world, and Western civilization developed rapidly as a result. This book uses rigorous historical research to reproduce the development of various countries on the road to Central Asia before the Talos War and the history of exchanges between various civilizations after the war. It describes this war that is most easily ignored by time but has affected the world.

The Legend of Wu (looking North to Chang'an Series)

Yang Jun Gao Xia

136K0

The Kingdom of Wu, a kingdom with the surname Ji that was comparable to the uncle of the Emperor Zhou, but was regarded as a "barbarian" state, a southeastern overlord that had been dormant for hundreds of years, suddenly emerged in the late Spring and Autumn Period, and then suddenly passed away... Through delicate writing, this book shows you the arduous journey of the Chinese ancestors who worked hard to open up the territory in the south of the Yangtze River. It analyzes where the Wu State came from, how it became a hegemon from a "barbarian", how it rose rapidly and died in two generations, how it created a rich and colorful heterogeneous culture in the south of the Yangtze River, and a series of mysterious topics. It reproduces an era in which civilization and bestiality are intertwined.