With China’s unique way of life as well as many other ideals and whatnot that carried them in a beautifully specific manner, China hasn’t really had the best of luck with outsiders. The Tang Dynasty was filled to the brim with outside invaders trying to take over China or even just destroy it entirely. The Arabians were one to try and destroy China to expand their empire, but ended up getting something better – control of the Silk Road to the west. The Tibetans were another outsider class that tried to destroy China. They took advantage of a civil war to attack, and actually gained a large part of the Northern area of the Tang Dynasty land in response. The Song Dynasty didn’t fare much better, with the focus they had put on getting the Silk