tangut empire造句

• The Tanguts had only one state in their history, the Western Xia or Tangut Empire ( 1038 1227 ).
• The Western Xia Dynasty, known also as the Tangut Empire, was established in the 11th century by Tangut tribes.
• During Kublai Khan's time, the city was expanded, reaching a size three times bigger than during the Tangut Empire.
• A postscript indicates that Genghis Khan would later go on to invade and conquer the Tangut Empire by 1227, fulfilling the monk's prophecy.
• 450 years after the destruction of the Tangut empire, the " Kingdom of Tenduc or Tangut " was still shown on some European maps as China's northwestern neighbor
• In 1044 the Tangut Empire signed a treaty with the Song dynasty resulting in the nominal acknowledgment of Song sovereignty by the Tangut and the payment of tribute by the Song.
• Although the Tangut empire won a series of three large battles, the victories proved to be very costly and they found their forces depleted, due in part to a scorched earth policy by the Song.
• The latest known text written in the Tangut language, the Tangut dharani pillars, dates to 1502, suggesting that the language was still in use nearly three hundred years after the destruction of the Tangut Empire.
• The Tangut Empire was especially efficient in such efforts; exploiting the then newly invented block printing, and with the full support of the government ( contemporary sources describe the Emperor and his mother personally contributing to the translation effort, alongside sages of various nationalities ), the Tanguts took mere decades to translate volumes that had taken the Chinese centuries to render.
• He stayed on at the college as a research student in the History department until he graduated in 1959 . By this time, he had become fascinated with the extinct and only semi-deciphered Tangut script, and in 1960 he decided to move to Yinchuan in Ningxia, the former capital of the Tangut Empire, to devote himself to Tangut studies, but his wife was unwilling to accompany him, so they divorced.