China
- Science, Poetry
- Science tang: monk yixing was the first to successfully measure the length of the meridian line
- Sun simiao, the medicine kind. Wrote a medical book Qianjin Fang ( thousand Golden Prescriptio)
- Yi xing led a national project to observe. Identify, and locate stars
- Science and Song
- Acupuncture – a system of complementary medicine that involves pricking the skin or tissues with needles, used to lesson pain.
- Astronomer yang zhongfu made the system of astronomical calendar. And took 365.2425 days as one year
- Poetry- Tang
- Around 50,000 poems
- Poetry was very imp. In the tang dynasty
- Professional and social life of the literate class
- Imperial examinations- government jobs
- Still very influential
- Poetry- song
- New form of poem called the ci lyric
- Ci lyric- new lyric written to the rythem of a pre existing song
- Titled as “to the tune of…”
- Usually expressed feelings to desire
- Technology- song
- Paper- printed money was another advancement of currency during the song dynasty
- During the 13th century the windmill started to be used throughout china
- Movable types of printing helped the spread of woodblock printing to teach Confucian students
- Advancements in agriculture like new developments of rice cultivation
- Technology-tang
- First clock escapement mechanism. Called the astronomical clock. Yi-Xing
- Gunpowder. Had no life threatening properties but exploded when exposed to fire
- Air conditioning. A cool hall was built in the palace a device called the tang-yulin functioned as an air conditioner.
- Had no water powered fan wheels that moved
- Art
- Tang period was considered the golden age of literature and art
- Toward the beginning of the tang dynasty the most common painting was the landscape
- Shanshui- means painting of the landscapes
- Painting and calligraphy were viewed as some of the most noble arts
- Song dynasty rose after the tang dynasty died down
- Soldiers didn’t leave their land until it was time to fight
- Fu military was replaced by the mercenary system, which weakened the tang military
- 3 catagories with a certain number of men in each one
- Upper fu- commanded 1,200 men
- Middle fu-1,000 men
- Lower fu- 800 men
- Fu was abandoned it prevented agriculture
- Soldiers were rated on their athletic ability, and divided into companies, platoons, and a group of men called the cross bowers
- Army (song)
- A lot of generals did something and are now considered a god or a legendary leader for their contributions
- Che kung appeared in the villagers dream who suffered from a plague and saved them
- If a man had a successor career in the military he had a sure path to success in politics
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