Compare And Contrast Tang And Song Dynasties

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During the end of the 6th century (centuries after the Han dynasty), the Sui, Tang, and Song dynasties brought back imperial centralized rule to China. At this time, there was great prosperity for China as they experienced great agricultural practices, technological innovations, interactions with trade, spread of religion (Buddhism), and having impact on other cultures (Korea, Vietnam, Japan, and central Asia).

1. The Restoration of Centralized Imperial Rule in China: After the fall of the Han dynasty, three major kingdoms arose that allowed China to restore centralized imperial rule: the Sui, the Tang, and the Song.
The Sui Dynasty: The duke of the Sui, Yang Jian, along with many other emperors during the dynasty’s realm, demanded much requirements …show more content…

3 policies that contributed to much of the success of early China: maintenance of communication networks and transportation, land distribution for equal-field system, and the reliance on a merit based off of bureaucracy
Communicating with neighboring lands allowed trade, cultural values, and diplomatic contacts to facilitate (neighboring lands recognized Chinese emperors as overlords - delivered gifts and perform kowtow)
The Song Dynasty: Due to the lack of good leadership towards the mid-eighth century of the Tang, the Song dynasty emerged and restored centralized imperial rule in China again, however, they never did formed an authoritative state due to the lack of focus on combat.
Administration helped to bring centralized imperial government into …show more content…

Encountered fast-ripening rice which benefited the Tang and Song to new food crops; adapted to improved agricultural techniques (heavy iron plows, oxen and water buffaloes, soil enrichment with manure and organic matter, irrigation systems: reservoirs, dams, dikes, canals, pumps, waterwheels)
Wealth and agricultural activity influenced having patriarchy within their society; within the patriarchal society, there came foot binding and ironically a female emperor, Wu Zhao
Technological and Industrial Development: A generous amount of food encouraged people to improve and invent new technological and industrial devices.
Improved: Porcelain and metallurgy
Invented: gunpowder, printing (block-printing technique), and naval technology
The Emergence of a Market Economy: From goods ranging from food supply to technological/industrial goods, it allowed open markets to appear in China.
The invention of paper money came from the search for other ways to cash

3. Cultural Change in Tang and Song China: Communication with other societies allowed changes to be made within cultures during the postclassical era of

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