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Tangut society was divided into two classes: the "Red Faced" and the "Black Headed". The Red Faced Tanguts were seen as commoners while the Black Headed Tanguts made up the elite priestly caste. Although Buddhism was extremely popular among the Tangut people, many Tangut herdsmen continued to practice a kind of shamanism known as Root West (Melie).
The Western Xia or the Xi Xia (Chinese: 西夏; pinyin: Xī Xià; Wade–Giles: Hsi 1 Hsia 4), officially the Great Xia (大夏; Dà Xià; Ta 4 Hsia 4), also known as the Tangut Empire, and known as Mi-nyak [6] to the Tanguts and Tibetans, was a Tangut-led imperial dynasty of China that existed from 1038 to 1227.
Tanguts capture Ordos [20] 1002: Dingnan Jiedushi conquers Lingzhou, renames it Xiping, and makes it their capital [21] 1004: 6 January: Li Jiqian dies in battle against the Tibetan state of Xiliangfu and his son Li Deming succeeds him [17] Li Jipeng dies at the Song court [17] 1008: Dingnan Jiedushi attacks the Ganzhou Uyghur Kingdom [22] 1009
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