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Focus Question 11/29/12. What does Bureaucracy mean? Chinese government was organized into a bureaucracy This means different departments specialized in special functions. Tang and Song Dynasties. Tang . Tang and Song Politcal :. Tang. Song. Known as the “The Golden Age“
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Focus Question 11/29/12 • What does Bureaucracy mean? • Chinese government was organized into a bureaucracy • This means different departments specialized in special functions
Tang and Song Politcal: Tang Song • Known as the “The Golden Age“ • Reunited China and brought peace and prosperity • Government took census, gave examinations over Confucian text for positions, and built public works. • Conquered Korea and Manchuria • Emerged in the South • Built upon the Achievements of the Tang • Song China was most populous and advanced civilization of its day • greatest threat was the northern tribes. Song allied with the Mongols. • Mongols soon overran the Empire-Yuan Dynasty
Economic: Tang Song • Revived feudal relationships • Under early Tang, every adult received fixed amount of land from government • Peasants performed hard labor for the government and paid taxes in the form of grain and silk. • Benefited in the Silk Road; trade with Persia, Arabia, Japan and the Byzantine Empire. • First paper currency(made it possible to pay taxes with money instead of grain) • Minted strings of standardized coins • Eliminated forced labor for the emperor • All of this brought about a large increase in farm production=greater wealth for China. • Grand Canal used to ship grain within china • Silk Road
Religion Tang Song • Confucianism • Confucianism
Social Tang Song • Women to obey her father, husband, and son • Gained respect with birth of a son • foot binding • Women to obey her father, husband, and son • Gained respect with birth of a son • foot binding • lived in larger towns and cities *Song capital housed more than a million people!
Intellectual Tang Song • Advances in architecture, sculpture, and painting stimulated by its contacts with India and the Middle East • literature and art thrived in this dynasty • map making, medicine, block printing • Advances from the Tang Dynasty in science, mathematics and technology • Astronomers-new instruments • Acupuncture • Introduced gunpowder in war • Compass for navigation • invented moveable type for printing
China’s Influence on Japan • China influence on Japan was immense however Japan was not a carbon copy of China. • Things China Influenced • Art • Dance • Writing • Food/Cooking • Style and taste • Modeled the imperial court after the China
Japan’s Society • Japan had the Feudalism much longer than any other country due their policy of isolation