accomplishments of the song dynasty
- it succeeded the five dynasties and ten kingdoms period
- followed by the yuan dynasty
- ruled from 960-1279
3 key people
- song taizu (zhao kuangyin)
- founded the northern song dynasty
- learned martial arts at an early age
- he took over the military powerand assigned civilians to be local officials
- he established policie for agriculture in order to promote the development for the economy
- song taizong
- brother of taizu
- ordered li fang, a scholar, to make an encyclopedia
- li fang completed it within six years
- taizon read three volumes a day
- read the complete encyclopedia within a year
- song gaozong
- founded the southern song dynasty
- it began when the northern song dynasty ended in 1127
- the jerchens attacked the northern song dynasty and captured the capital
- song gaozong ruled in 1127-1162 and was excellent with calligraphy
five dynasties and ten kingdoms
- major dynasty before the song dynasty
- five dynasties
- later liang dynasty
- later tang
- later jin
- later han
- later zhou
- 10 kingdoms
- wu, wuyue, min, chu, southern han, former shu, later shu, jingnan, southern tang, northern han
- being torn apart by welfare
- eventually quyue and qingyuan gave up their land to northern song in 978
Yuan
- major dyansty after song dynasty
- in 1276, kublai bhan led his army and captured the capital of the southern song dynasty
- unified the entire country of china
- that was the end of the song dynasty
known for
- population explosion began in the song dynasty
- women started binding their feet
- rice and tea became the dominant food
- progressed fast in science and technology
- they used moveable type printing which allowed hundreds of sheets to be printed
- invented gun powder and gun powder weapons
- advanced industrialization
- built some of the largest cities in the world
- came up with advanced rice cultivation techniques which made rice a major food
science and technology
- tang poetry
- follows the golden age of chinese
- two famous poets
- du fu
- li bai
- song poetry
- classical chinese poetry
- poets
- su shi
- ouyang xiu
- lu you
- yang wanli
- many different forms
- Ci- a form of poetry based on songs, and rhythms but with different words
- tang technology
- invented astronomical clock
- gunpowder
- gas cylinders
- water-powered fans
- porcelain
- song technology
- calculated an accurate measurement of the astronomical meridan
- many medical breakthroughs
- used ephedrin as a pharmaceutical drug
- flame thrower
- tang art
- many paintings of the landscape, shanshui
- these were paintings of mountains and water
- main music was qin
- made pots and plates
- song art
- contributed a lot to the development of astronomy, medicine and printing technique
- monk yixing was the first to successfully measure the length of the meridian line
- science of song
- the song dynasty is considered by many to be chinas high point in science
- the period that the song made numerous scientific advances was known as the chinese renaissance
han and tang dynasty ag and trade
- tang agriculture
- great advances
- dug underground wells for better irrigation
- made lightweight pump used to take water to farms far from water sources
- rice ripened quickly, so china was able to hold a large population with these inventions
- crops
- corn
- rice
- beans
- wheat
- the use of silk roads declined dramatically
- silk roads were frequently ambushed by the mongols
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