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-The development of agriculture allowed the Chinese population to grow more food and allowed them to make previously unusable land more useful
-Extensive waterways allowed for more trade and increased manufacturing and production, as well as allowing them to import more food
-Coal provided energy and was used to produce steel, which resulted in the building of structures
-China became the most urbanized society in the world (Hanzhou had more than a million people in it).

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-at the height of Song Dynasty, China was the most urbanized land in the world
+Urban cities grew in prominence in this period
+there was an entirely new social class created (the scholar gentry)
+under the scholar gentry, there was farmers, artisans, and merchants
+the merchants were able to exchange goods without physical labor
+lower parts of the social class were peasants that worked for wealthy landowners
+foot binding was a rite of passage for women
+mothers would do that to their daughters in order to have them married
+foot binding was unsafe and very painful
+rise of patriarchy
+women practiced the act of foot binding to come off as more fragile and dainty
+men were judged on how well they could write

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The Grand Canal helped China to become the most populous trading area in the world.
Artisans manufactured silk and porcelain that reached consumers through trading networks.
The people of China were the first ones to make guns, with the recently invented gunpowder.
The government began to pay the Chinese people to build roads or canals necessary to the economy, instead of requiring them to provide their labor to the government.
The tributary system had other states pay money or goods to the Chinese emperor. It created stability and stimulated trade for those involved and cemented China's political and economic power.
-China was a commercialized society where people produced for the market rather than local consumption.
-growing use of paper money, letters of credit, promissory notes.

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Tang and Song dynasties built state structures containing six ministries, personnel, finance, rites, army, justice, and public works. The censorate which kept all six ministries in check. Rapid expansion of bureaucracy led to high examination standards and most jobs going to the sons of privileged families. China's bureaucratic system was known as meritocracy. Expansion of civil service exams based on Confucianism. Jurchen (Jin) invaded Xinjiang in 1127 song empire moved south.

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-Grand Canal and many smaller waterways were made which helped boost trading habits and routes
-Gunpowder and gun creation
-Coal was made main fuel
-Used steel to create bridges, gates, ship anchors, and agriculture equipment
-First culture to use wood block printing
-Navigational and shipping technology (Magnetic Compass)
-Champa rice adopted which was drought resistant

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China had a well-educated population and extensive contact with other nations. Technology, literature, and visual arts thrived. China invented woodblock printing which gave more people access to literature. China also had a very diverse belief in religions. 3 different types of Buddhism were introduced to China from India via the silk roads. All three types of Buddhism had a belief in the Four Noble Truths which emphasized the idea that personal suffering could be removed by eliminating desires and following the Buddhist precepts. Although Buddhism was introduced, the Song Dynasty preferred Confucianism.