Emperor Yang of Sui

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3 related events

1. AD 598 – AD 614Goguryeo–Sui Warsmonarch

   Sui, having reunified China, invaded Goguryeo four times and failed every time; the campaigns helped bring Sui down.

2. 1
   AD 605 – AD 610Emperor Yang of Sui Builds the Grand Canalleader

   In 605–610 Emperor Yang of Sui completed the Grand Canal linking the Yellow River with the Huai and the Yangtze and north to Zhuo Commandery (today’s Beijing), joining the economy of the south to the political centre in the north.

3. 2
   AD 612Battle of Salsu Rivermonarch

   Goguryeo forces under Eulji Mundeok routed a Sui strike force at the Salsu (Cheongcheon) River.

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People who appear alongside

• King YeongyangAD 618

  Twenty-sixth king of Goguryeo, who struck Liaoxi and repelled the Sui invasions

• Eulji Mundeok

  Goguryeo general who lured the Sui strike force inland and destroyed it at the Salsu River

Themes this person appears in

• Wars of Korean UnificationAD 598 – AD 676

  From Goguryeo's wars with Sui and Tang to Silla's unification — eighty years of East Asian war on the peninsula

• Sui, Tang and the East Asian WorldAD 317 – AD 979

  From the divided Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Gupta age through the Sui and Tang empires to the founding of the Song — the age when an East Asian world sharing law codes, Buddhism, Confucianism and Chinese characters took shape, and Korea and Japan built their states on its model