TANG SONG ++ productivity ?? Chang’an 2 mil. 30 sq. m.

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CHAPTER 14

TANG

SONG

AGRICULTURE ++ productivity

??

Chang’an2 mil.30 sq. m.

Cosmopolitan ReligionCulture

InventionsPaper (Han)Porcelain

“china”

TANG TECHNOLOGY Gunpowder

Origins, Han

Printing

SONG DYNASTY

Capital

Markets

Entertainment

URBANIZATION

People, products

ECONOMICS Flying cash

ATM

Money

Industrial revolution?

700 yrs. before West

WOMEN Subordinate

SONG Footbinding Elites

Not universal

FOOTBINDING Attractive = physically weak Marriage?

HEIAN JAPAN (700-1100) Literature

Tale of GenjiThe Confessions of Lady Nijo

Sex, drinking, gossip

SAMURAI (1100-1600)

FeudalismShoen

private estates

NoblesAnd their samurai warriors

Mounted warriors