agriculture - increased trade contracts, overseas trade through investments government - encouraged people to reclaim barren lands and put them under cultivation. Anyone who opened up new lands and paid taxes were granted permanent possession of the new land. invented a plow to cultivator the lands. used irrigation systems made out of bamboo. cotton was very economic crop, cotton was collected, pits removed, beaten loose with bamboo bows, and which was drawn into yarn and weaved into clothing. Trade was huge of the economy. every "social" class was involved in trade. since the fall of the Sui dynasty, productive has declined majorly when Tang dynasty reunified the whole nation, Emperor Kao Tsu spent much attention to develop agriculture. economy was very great in power.
accomplishments of song dynasty - lasted from 960-1279 AD. considered a second golden age, following that of the Tang dynasty, which collapsed 50 years earlier. followed by the Yuan dynasty. Considered of Northern song and southern song. in 1279 the army of the yuan dynasty captured the capital of the southern song, which pretty much ended the southern song. there was a total of 18 emperors who ruled over the song dynasty, the first emperor of the song adopted a bureaucratic system employing scholar-official. civil service exams were revived, schools spread, and literacy grew. they based welfare by first helping house and care for the elderly. What they did for large cities - made state hospitals , got low interest loans for peasants. Zhao Kuangyin - military general who founded the northern song. in 13 years he was able to unite the separatist regimes in the southern part of china. agriculture productivity and output of food advanced with new technologies. Division of labor became more detailed with handicrafts technologies. the basic form of paper currency appeared during their time period, also called Jiao Zi. Silk, textile, and porcelain - made industries strive. advances were made in the mining and manufacturing of ceramics. this caused China from Agrarian to a mercantile state. the industry improved with new bridges, better canal lock gates, and water powered clocks. Methods of acupuncture and autopsies and physicians code of ethics were codified. arts even saw an advancement in Lyrical song and portrait and landscape paintings.
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