When and where?
Key people
Song Taizu
- founded the Norther Song Dynasty
- Ruled 960-976
- Leanred martal arts
- Took over local military power and assigned citizens to be local officials
Song Taizong
- Bro of ^^
- Ruled 976-997
- Order Li Fang to make an encylclopedia
- He read 3 volumes a day
- Read the whole thing in a year
Song Gaozong
- Founded the Southern Song Dynasty
- Began when the North Dynasty ended
- Jurchens attacked the NSD and captured the capital
- He ruled in 1127-1162
- Excellent in calligraphy
5 Dynasties and 10 Kingdoms
- Major Dyansty before the Song
- Later Liang
- Later Tang
- Later Jin
- Later Han
- Later Zhou
- 10 kingdoms
- Wu, Wuyue, Min, Chu, Souther Han, Former Shu, Later Shu, Jingan, Southern Tang, Norther Han
- Being torn apart by warfare
- Eventually Quyue and Qingyan gave their land up to Northern SOng
Yuan
- Major dynasty after Song
- Kublai Khan led his army and captured the SSD
- Unified China
- End of Song
What theyre known for
- Population explosion began in the Song Dynasty
- Women started binding their feet during the Song Dynasty
- Rice and Tea became the dominant food during this dynasty
- Song Dynasty progressed fast in science and technology
- Invented gunpowder and gunpowder weapons
- Had acvanced industrialization
- Were known for the building of some of the largiest cities in the world
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