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CHAPTER 11 Inner and Eastern Asia, 400?1200 I?? seq NLA \r 0 \h . The Sui and Tang Empires, 581?755 A?? seq NL1 \r 0 \h . Reunification Under the Sui and Tang 1?? seq NL_a \r 0 \h . The Sui Empire reunified China and established a government based on Confucianism but heavily influenced by Buddhism. The Sui?s rapid decline and fall may have been due to its having spent large amounts of resources on a number of ambitious construction, canal, irrigation, and military projects. 2?? seq NL_a \r 0 \h . The Tang Empire was established in 618. The Tang state carried out a program of territorial expansion, avoided over-centralization, and combined Turkic influence with Chinese Confucian traditions. B?? seq NL1 \r 0 \h . Buddhism and the Tang Empire