As just stated so did the Northern Song clan members set up a capital in Hangzhou. Instead of Northern Song so would they now be called Southern Song. Hangzhou back then was a wealthy trading city and the Song rulers retained their domain south of the Huai River along with most of the population at that time. They also managed to retain big southern merchant cities and therefore a new period of prosperity began. A priority in Southern Song was foreign trade, and the government constructed merchant ships and improved harbor facilities. Xiamen, Quanzhou and Guangzhou were big seaports. The Southern Song merchant ships sailed as far as India and Arabia. The trade allowed the Southern Song empire to continue to be prosperous although they had lost a lot of their land. The government ended up building a navy to protect the merchant shipping. Passle-wheel ships were built that were faster than regular boats …show more content…
The thing which made the cultural propagation fluid from dynasty to dynasty was that the Chinese mpires had a common written language for 2000 years. no matter what they spoke so would they be able to read texts. Therefore by requiring candidates for official positions to pass exams by testing their knowledge of the Neo-Confucian texts, the court would be ensured that their officials were exceptionally intelligent and could communicate in this very difficult literary language. The government system had of course its advantages and disadvantages. The bureaucrats for an example studied the same works on social behavior and philosophy. That promoted unity and the normalization of behavior through the empire and during the times of dynastic change. The scholar-bureaucrats had a common base of understanding after all and they passed on these political and philological ideals to the people underneath them so that the whole empire could have a common philosophy of
In a diagram labeled “Economic Connections during the Golden Age of the Song” (Document 4), it showed the development of China from farming to growing cities through the use of technology. By creating agricultural technology, there was eventually a surplus in food and other products began to sell. This opened up trade and jobs and made large business cities like the capital, Chang’An. The economy expanded and prospered based on the trade of art and technology. In a picture scene (Document 9), it shows a busy, bustling city doing business. There are merchants and traders who traveled by water. All of this caused cultural diversity and diffusion. The growth of China’s strong economic system and systems of trade resulted in the Tang and Song China becoming the Golden
During the Zhou Dynasty, there were mant developments, and how and why those develpoments happened. There was also many changes and continuities that was caused because of these additions. Some developments were that supporters supported a central governmentwith tax revenues amd troops. This development happened because since large estates were too big, they were controlled by family members/ supportters of the emperor. These supporters lacked cintrol of their territory which
Manufacturing was also a very important part of the Tang Dynasty. Manufacturing was done in both state owned and privately owned workshops. Mostly located in larger cities, crafts such as brocade weaving, papermaking, iron smelting, casting, pottery were done. The textile industry prospered. The silk products from Songzhou and Bozhou were most famous for their high quality. Marked improvements were introduced in the manufacture of pottery and porcelain. The porcelain from the Xingzhou kiln was particularly noted for its quality and described as 'white as silver and snow'.
Both the Tang and Song Dynasties had very successful economies. The Silk Roads were reopened and restored during the Tang Dynasty. These were essential trade routes that opened a network of
The Song dynasty came in to power in 960 and ended in 1279. It consisted of the Northern Song and Southern Song. Northern Song was founded by Zhao Kaungyin, a military
Entry# 1: Good day journal, I have ventured further into my research on the Song Dynasty, I have learned very much about the landscape, geographical features, and much more like some major epochs of their time and even some quotes directly from some of the people living there. To start the song dynasty lasted from 960 to 1279 A.D. they lasted 319 years “Their climate had a very diverse range, ranges from tropical in south and subtropical in the north. The terrain is mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in the west, plains, deltas, and hills in the east.”(Embry 4). This is what I observed and mentally noted while I was touring the Song Dynasty. “Emperor Taizu began reigning in the year 960. His capital was in Kaifeng. During his 16 years of rule, he instituted successful policies and won his wars of expansion” (Wu 7). This was something that a local had told me about emperor Taizu. He further on explained to me about his resilience and how he expanded his land with intelligent war tactics.The Song dynasty was an era of Chinese history that began in 960 and continued until 1279. It succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, and was followed by the Yuan dynasty (Benn 0).
First, the Han Dynasty was more important to the development of China because it created the idea of a Civil Service Exam. The Han Dynasty readopted the idea of having families rulers after the Qin Dynasty strayed from the tradition; however, they kept the idea of bureaucrats from the Qin Dynasty. They used appointed government officials to oversee the day-to-day work of their government. This lead them to implement the Civil Service Exam. The exam was meant to help chose the bureaucrats for the government. It was a test centered around the ideas of Confucius and how to apply them to everyday life. By making this a normal part of Chinese society, the Han Dynasty was able to extend government official job opportunities to people of all social classes. In addition, because the exam gave these opportunities to all people, all people put more emphasis on
The Tang and Song Empires were two very powerful empires that ruled China after the Han and Sui Dynasties. The Han Dynasty left China fragmented for centuries, and the Sui Dynasty reunified China until the Turks from Inner Asia assassinated the son who ruled. The Tang filled the political vacuum in 618 with emperor Li Shimin (r. 626-649) who extended his power into westward Inner Asia. The Tang kept many Sui governing practices but avoided overcentralization with giving nobles, gentry, and religious establishments power. The Tang Empire fell after the An Lushan and Huang Chao rebellions that left the society homeless, a refugee, or a migrant worker. The empire fell in 907 after a warlord terminated their line. However, the Song Empire had arisen in 960 and paid tribute to the Liao, who controlled the north. The Song Empire aligned with the Jurchens, who ended up creating the Jin Empire, to destroy the Liao capital. The Song Empire was betrayed by the Jurchens and ended up having to pay tribute to them, which some historians refer to as the “Southern Song” period (1127-1279). The Song Empire declined in the year 1126. The Tang and the Song had a variety of economic, political, and social accomplishments, some that they shared, and some that they didn’t. Both the Tang and the Song increased the use of trade, had a change of size of their empires, and had major advancements in technology. Although, the Tang and the Song differed with the growth of Song’s population and its
Originally there were six Chinese kingdoms (Warring States Period), Qin ended this and brought them all under one kingdom. In 230 BC, Ying Zheng started his conquest of the Warring States. The Han State was conquered first in 230 BC. In 228 BC, Qin occupied the territory of the Zhao State. In 226 BC, Qin occupied the capital Ji (now Beijing) of the Yan State. Then the King of Yan moved the capital to Liaodong. In 225
During this period, China had an extensive educated bureaucracy composed of citizens from any class. The bureaucrats were educated with principles of Confucianism, and Chinese literature. This was the governing class. The bureaucrats were respected by members of the lower classes and controlled the local areas. The emperor ruled through the instructions given to the bureaucracy. Imperial Rome had a single authoritarian ruler who was in control of the country because of the power of his military. The tyrant ruled through laws imposed on the citizens. Local governments in the Roman Empire had more autonomy than its Chinese counterparts. Aristocrats were trusted to control their regions. China ruled through its bureaucrats enforcing Confucian values while Rome established laws for the country, but allowed local aristocrats to enforce
Nevertheless, hundreds of years later, when China became a large unified country, its emperor started to promote Confucius’s ideas nationwide and even integrated them into 科举 to select government officials, who were all supposed to master
In the Dynastic Cycle the Tang and Song Dynasties were very different although they had very close founding dates, one after the other, their period of decline/warfare were very different. First, the Tang dynasty was founded in the year 618 CE and ended in the year 907 CE. The Song was founded in about 960 CE right after the Tang ended. The Song Dynasty ended in 1279. Next, the Song and Tang Dynasties ended in very different ways. First, the way that the Song Dynasty ended was that they were attacked by the Khitans in the Northern part of the empire. They were very easy to attack because they believed in an educated person over a strong military. Then the rest of the Song dynasty was destroyed because of more attacks from invaders.
A dynasty is defined as system of monarchy where power is held by the family bloodline. The Song Dynasty or Sung Dynasty, often thought of as another period of “Golden Age” lived on for centuries. The Tokugawa Dynasty, also known as the Edo period or the “Great Peace” lasted from 1603 till 1868. These two empires had great differences and not as much common characteristics other than both being dynasties in the large continent of Asia.
The Qin dynasty was perhaps one of the most revolutionary governments in the ancient world, but not in the modern progressive connotation of that concept. The Qin Emperor, Shi Huangdi, and his court executed an unprecedented departure from the Confucian ideals of the Benevolent and unobtrusive ruler and established a much more autocratic and centralized government. This new method of rule and philosophic thought was known as Legalism, which surfaced as a response to a time of great political instability. Therefore, Legalism promoted values that opposed those championed by Confucian thought, such as decisiveness, a lack of trust, and severe punishment, qualities that are reflected in The Legalist Teachings. "Changing the Laws" in one such passage in this document that stresses the importance of acting with confidence stating how "those who hesitate to act accomplish nothing" ¨ (Ebrey, Legalist Teachings, pg. 32).
Song Dynasty: during the Song Dynasty, there were several reformations and the Keju System became more and more mature and consummate. It had reached its summit. The government expanded admission quota and established Provincial Examination, Metropolitan Examination, and Final Imperial Examination. Those exams would be hold triennially. Song Dynasty changed the situation that merchant were discriminated in Sui and Tang Dynasties. Thanks to this policy, many people who were born miserably could have a fair access to higher level of bureaucracy.