- Song and Tang:
- Ag:
Increased international trade contacts, and a revolution in ag production
overseas trade through investments in trading vessels which undertook trade at ports
gov encouraged people to reclaim barren lands and put them under cultivation. anyone who oped up new lands and paid takes were granted permanent possession of the new land.
Cotton was a very economic crop
weaved into cloth called jibel
Trade:
trade was a huge part of the economy and very social class was involved in trade some way.
Since the collapse of the Sui Dynasty (581-618) productivity was severly damaged and the nationl economy was in paralysis
In this was the peasants burden was lessend and production efficiency was improved
The economy was very great in power - Accomplishments of the Song Dynasty:
- Song:
lasted 960- 1279
considered a second golden age following that of the Tang dynasty which collapsed 50 years after
followed by the Yuan dynasty
There was a total of 18 empires
the first emperor of the Song adopted a Bureaucratic system employing scholar-officials - getting started:
grew because books became more common
Civil service exams were revised, schools spread, literacy grew
boasted welfare by 1st helping house and care for the elderly
what they did for large cities:
made state hospitals
made state orphanages
developed fire stations - Zhao Kuangyin:
military general who founded the Northern Song
was able to unite the separatist regimes in the southern China in 13 years - Advancements:
- poetry grew stronger
basic form of paper currency appeared during their time period also called Jiao Zi - Ag:
Crop yields soon started to rise because of advancements
Advances were made in the mining and manufacturing of ceramics
This caused China from Agrarian to a mercantile state - China renaissance:
writings of neo-confucians helped philosophy
Even arts saw an advancement in Lyrical song and portrait and landscape paintings
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