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In the Central Plains of China:Came before: Sui dynasty Came after: Song dynasty
The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms came in between, from 907 CE.
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Chang'an became the largest, most cosmopolitan city on Earth, drawing traders and monks from Persia, Arabia, Central Asia, Korea and Japan into a court that produced tens of thousands of surviving poems. A general's revolt in 755 broke the empire's finances and confidence, and the dynasty spent its last century and a half never fully recovering before regional warlords tore it apart.