Weapons
- Tang weaponry
- Pikes (hand held)
- Swords (hand held)
- Throwing Dagger (Long ranged weapon)
- Bow and Arrow (Long range arrow)
- Tang Armor
- Shan Wen Kai mountian pattern armour
- Made up of mutiple pieces of small steal
- Covers up your torso, thighs and shouders
- Its comfy and flexible
- Tang Tactics
- Come up from behind their enemy and take them out so the enemy is scared
- almost all of the generals that were in the the tang military were very good at tactics
- Song weapondry
- Some of the first uses of gun powder
- Firelance-cross between flame thrower and gun
- Used a single cyclinder piston system to pump fluid ignited by gunpowder
- Firelance also shot shrapnel
- Trebuchets-catapult like structure to launch objects from a rope
- Recorded use of grenades and landmines
- Some traditional weapons used as well
- Also one of the first documented use od the cannon
- Quality was conrolled by a bereua called the Directorate of weaponry
- Song armor
- Shields
- Horses were armed
- MAde from a hide from a rhino
- Shan wen kai
- Small pieces of metal interlocked and riveted into cloth or leather backing
- Song tactics
- veiwed military training and tactics as a science
- soldiers were tested in use of weapons and athletics ability
- platoon-50 men, company-2 platoons, battalion-500 men
- 1 million men
- crossbowmen units were very effective against cavalry and war elephants, also used as long range snipers
- armories manufactured enormus amounts of weapons each year
- very large navy, some carried up to 1000 soldiers
Tang Song Social Classes and status of women
- was known as a time where the status of women were declined
- the would only gin respect if they have birth to a son
- compared to tang times women were less active in political and less seen on the streets
- womens right to property were secure in the song times
Song social classes
- was marked by political and legal reforms
- there was 4 social classes
- th shi (scholars)
- nong (peasant farmers)
Tabg status of women
- Woe=men were accorded with more respects and power
- allowed to take religious order to become preist
- were encouraged to exert their influence in politics, arts and managing property
- also given rightd to defend themselves in court
- 8 different classes
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