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[3rd Adam Zac]

Womens rights in the song dybnasty

• Lower than men
• Lot of well educated women
• Women educated sons
• Most were maids and servents

Rights

• Gained more rights when married
• Given large doweryes and leagal rights in property

Establishment

• Fifty years after end of tang, impearial army createcd song
• One of the 5 dynasties after tang

Social class

• Wealthy landwoners
  • Scholars
    • Merchants
      • Pesants
        • Slaves

Common women

• Traded lovestock and women to turks
• Most were not treated well
• Women cooked and cleaned

Higher women

• Women called courtesans
  • Singers and poets
  • Supervised banquets and feasts
  • Know rules to drinking games
  • Wernt afraid to critize men

There were 8 social classes

1. Emperor and family
2. Aristocracy
3. Bueracracy
4. Eunichs
5. Clergy
6. Pesants
7. Artisans and traders
8. Slaves

 

 

 

War  

• Weapons song
  • Knife chariot
  • Rammer
  • Scaling ladder
  • Stone casting machine
  • Fire arrow
  • Fire ball
  • Wach tower
  • Gunpowder
    • Good in sieg
    • Early rockets cannons bombs mines
    • Bombs mixed with scrap iorn used in catapults
    • Wanted better weapons to kill mongols
    • Weapons tang
      • Pike
      •  swords
      • Bow and arrow
      • Gernades
      • Throwing dagger
      • Aromr tang
        • Shields were thick iorn plates, sharp edges, use as weapons
        • Shields were almost unpenatratable
        • Tactics
          • Song
            • Clamor in the east
            • Attack in the west
            • Element of supprise
            • Face an enemy when they least expect it
• Tang
  • Feint
  • Decive
  • Make a move,
  • Hit them when they react to that move

 

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