Achomplishments of the Song Dynasty
• When and Where
o Ruled from 960-1279
o Succeeded the five dynasties and ten kingdoms period
o Followed by the yuan dynasty
• 3 key people
o Song Taizu
• Founded the northern song dynasty
• Learned material arts at an early age
• He took over military power and assigned civilians to be local officials
• He established policie for agriculture in order to promote the development for the economy
o Song Taizong
• Brother of song taizu
• Ruled norther song dynasty in 976-997
• He ordered lifang a scholar to make and encyclopedia
• Li fang completed in within 6 years
• Taizon read 3 volumes a day
• Read the whole thing in a year
o Song gaozong
• Founded southeren song dynasty
• Began when northern song dynasty ended in 1127
• The jurchens attacked and captured the capital
• 1127-1162
• 5 dynasties and ten kingdoms
• Major dynasty before the song dynasty
Later liang
Later tang
LaterJin
Later han
Later zhou
• 10 kingdoms
Wu, wuyue, min, chu, southern han, former shu, later shu, jingman, southern tang, northern han
• Became a part of war fare
• Yuan
1. Major dynasty after song
2. In 1276 they lead an army into the capital of the southeren song dynasty
3. Unified china
• What they are known for
1. Population explosion
2. Invented gun powder
3. Came up with rice cultivation techniques
4. Advanced industrialization
• Tang and Song
Science and technology and poetry and art
• Poetry
1. Follows the golden age of Chinese
2. Written by over 2,200 authors
3. Two famous poets
Du Fu
Li Bai
• Song Poetry
1. Classical Chinese poetry
Su Shi
Ouyang Xiu
Lu You
Yang Wanli
2. Many different forms
3. Ci-form of poetry based on songs and rythms but with different words
• Tang Technology
1. Invented astronomical clock
2. Gunpowder
3. Gas cylinders
4. Water powered fans
5. Porcelain
• Song Technology
1. Calculated an accurate measurement of the astronomical meridian
2. Many medical breakthroughs
3. Used ephedrine as a drug
4. Hydraulic powered clocks
• Tang Art
1. Landscape paintings
2. Many of mountains and water
3. Many were traded
4. Main music was quin which was also in the han dynasty
5. Pots and plates
6. Shanshui
• Science of Tang
1. Monk yixing was the first to successfully measure the length of the meridian line
• Science of Song
2. Gunpowder compass and moveable type printing
3. The period that they made many advancements was called the Chinese renaissance
• Tang Dynasty ag and trade
1. The tang dynasty made great advancements in agriculture such as digging underground wells for better irrigation, made a very light weight pump used to take water to farm land far from water sources rice a Chinese crop ripened quickly so china was able to hold such a large population with small inventions
2. Crops- Grew corn rice beans and wheat
3. Tang dynasty Trade- During the tang dynasty the use of the silk roads declined drastically because of the mongols
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