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Ancient China Tang and Song Dynasty

Chapter 14 Section 2

Advances in Agriculture

•  Northern Farmers: •  -Wheat

-Barley -Other Grains

•  Southern Farmers: •  -Rice

Song Dynasty Farming

•  The Dragon Backbone Pump: •  -a new irrigation device that

allowed one person to do the work of several

Song Dynasty Farming

•  Increase in the number of farms

•  New fast-ripening rice crops

•  New crops: cotton and tea

Population

•  Tang Dynasty: 60 Million

•  Song Dynasty: 100 Million

Focus Question: Why did the population increase in the Song Dynasty?

*hint: think about the last few slides

Tang Dynasty City Life

• Chang’an: •  Population of 1 million •  Largest city in the world at the time •  Trade Center •  Cosmopolitan •  Religious center

Chang’an Video

•  Play from 0:55-2:15

•  Focus Question: What does cosmopolitan mean?

Song Dynasty City Life

•  Kaifeng (ky-fuhng) •  -Song Dynasty Capital City •  -Population of about 1 million •  -one of many large cities in the Song Dynasty

Trade

•  The Grand Canal: •  -a series of waterways

that linked major cities and carried large amounts of trading goods (mostly food)

•  World’s longest human made waterway

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Trade

• EXPORTS:

Trade: Tang Dynasty vs. Song Dynasty

•  Tang Dynasty Trade: •  -Mostly land routes west to India/

Southwest Asia and East to Korea/Japan

•  Song Dynasty Trade: •  -Sea Trade •  -Development of PORCELAIN •  -Development of world’s first system

of paper money in 900

Art: Tang Dynasty vs. Song Dynasty

•  Tang Dynasty •  -Wu Daozi: Mural Artist •  Li Bo: Poet •  Du Fu: Poet

•  Song Dynasty •  Li Qingzhao (Ching-ZHOW): one of China’s greatest

female poets •  Porcelain •  Celadon: a pale greed glaze that covered porcelain

Important Inventions •  The Invention of Paper: Cai Lun (Han Dynasty)

Important Inventions

•  Woodblock Printing

Important Inventions •  Gunpowder (0:00-1:06)

Important Inventions

•  Magnetic Compass

Important Inventions •  Movable Type Printing (0:15-1:35)