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What if the Tibetan Empire had conquered the Tang Dynasty?

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Then the Tibetan armies who conquered the Tang would set themselves up as rulers of China, and secede from the original Tibetan empire. There would be a Tibetan civil war, and while this is going on an ambitious jiedushi would ally with nearby jiedushi and declare a revolt against the Tibetans. read more

The Tibetan Empire (Tibetan: བོད་ཆེན་པོ, Wylie: bod chen po, "Great Tibet") existed from the 7th to 9th centuries AD when Tibet was unified as a large and powerful empire, and ruled an area considerably larger than the Tibetan Plateau, stretching to parts of East Asia, Central Asia and South Asia. read more

This is the Tibetan Empire at it’s absolute peak. It controls all of sovereign Tibet, most of Bangladesh and Assam, most of Nepal, some of China and all of Bhutan. If it came into existance today, that would make it arguably one of the most powerful nations with one of the largest populations. read more

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