Tang Dynasty Overveiw
- Occured for almost 300 years
- Most successful emoperor - Tang Taizong
- Murdered family to get throne
- Murdered family to get throne
- Had lots of communication networks
- Roads
- Horses
- Human runners
- Roads
- Could communicate with disant cities in a matter or days
- Equal feild system - goverened amount of agricultural land
- Succesful until later when population increased
- Succesful until later when population increased
- Bureeauracy based on merit
- Got gov. officials by their educaation on confusion
- Got gov. officials by their educaation on confusion
- Dynasty came to an aned after multiple careless leaders came along and weakend to state
Song Dynasty Overveiw
- Emphasized - government, industry, education, and arts
- Song Taizu
- 1st emperor
- Originally part of army
- 1st emperor
- Had financial problems - people could’nt pay their taxes
- Military weakining
- Later the dynasty ended by Mongol forces got all of china in their empire
Relationship with Neighboors
- Veitnam showed China how to quiclky ripen rice
- Created high qualtiy porcelin - spread to southeast Asia, India, Persia and east Africa
- Buddhism came to china originally through the silk roads then flourished
- China liked it beacouse of the promise of salvation
- Morality standards
The tang and song dynasties would not be the same without the culture spread anlong the silk roads. Although the dynasties traded ideas with their neighboors it would be more unheard of. The tang and song dynasties were influenced culture from their neighboors which made them feel more welcome to do the same.
Citations
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"Free Image on Pixabay - Cave Of The Great Buddha." Free Photo: Cave Of The Great Buddha. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Oct. 2016.
"Free Image on Pixabay - Cave Of The Great Buddha." Free Photo: Cave Of The Great Buddha. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Oct. 2016.