long range weapons incluede the dagger, usually light and is really sharp to take out a guard. these are easy to handle for any man a bow or curbed bow is a wooden bow with a string attached
arrows are shot and incluedes an iron tip that kills
defenses
plates that are made of iron, very good in hand to hand combat
these can actually be used as a weapon because of the sharp edges around the rim
also have a shield which is a thick piece of iron and can defend any weapon
advancements in early technology had gunpowder, flame throweres, grenades, firearm, cannon , and some land mines
song fought off their enemies until their colapse in the thirteenth century
gunpowder was first used when prapped in paper or bamboo then tied to an arrow and light by a fuse
bombs of gunpower mixed with strap irons and launched by catapults
military commanders
An Lushan
also named Shi Siming
was the Prince of La of Yan the leader of Sogdian and Tujue
Li Shimin
Song and Tang
tech
Song dunasty provided some of the most significant technological advances
Song engineer named Su Song admitted that he and his co-workers were building upon and the work of Zhang Heng
was an astronomer, inventor, and he was an early master of mechanical gears
art
visual arts were heightened by new developmnets such as advances in landscape and portrait painting
beginning in the Tang adn Sung Dynasty
promary subject matter of Chinese painting was the landscape paintings
in these landscapes, usualy monochromatic and sparse
purpose was not to reproduce exactly the appearance of nature but rather to grasp an emotion or atmosphere so as to catch the rhythm of nature
Scientists fo the song erea advanced knowledge very quickly
the song era was the dynasty fo the most rapid scientific and technological progress
the inventors were especially good at creating varieties fo gunpowder for different purposes
Science
Shen Kuo was a very successful scientist
he failed in his campaign against Western Xia
Chinese scientists advanced the state of hteir knowledge about the geography of the empier, astronomy, mechanical engineering, and other subjects
poverty
this is considfered as the golden age of chinese poetry
there were almost fifty thousand
tang poems that were written by mor than two thousand two hundred authors
it was an important part of social life and intelligence, in all parts of two of the most famous poets of the time were du fu, lin bai
song dynasty classical chinese poetry the two famous poets in the sung dynasty are. ouyoung xiu, lu you, yang wanli
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