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| What time period did the Song dynasty rule? |
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| The ____ dynasty ruled from 960-1279 CE |
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| What 3 items contributed to the Song dynasty period of great prosperty? |
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- Improvements in Agriculture (Rice)
- Trade & Commerce grew - bringing money to merchants
- Urbanization (cities grew really big)
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| Marco Polo (Italian traveler) was amazed by what when he visited China? |
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Enormous size of cities and major shipping along river.
These impressed ____ _____ (Italian traveler) |
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17.2 Changes in Agriculture
#1 reason for growth of economy was ____? |
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| Agriculture was the #1 reason for what? |
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17.2 Changes in Agriculture
What was the major crop? |
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17.2 Changes in Agriculture
What are the 7 factors that helped increase crop production? |
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- Farmers moved south to fertile Chang Jiang river basin
- Warm, wet climate of south very good for rice
- New type of rice fast to grow & drought tolerant
- Better techniques and tools
- Started using fertilizers
- Chain pump allowed better irrigation
- More & more land turned into farms = wealth for land owners
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17.2 Changes in Agriculture
Name 5 characteristics of the new agriculture. |
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- Rice fields called "paddies"
- Rice grows in flooded fields
- Seedling transplanted by hend
- Harvested in 2 months
- Tea, Cotton, & Sugar grown also
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17.2 Changes in Agriculture
What were the results of changes in agriculture? |
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- Ample food (rice) allowed population to grow (over $100 Million)
- Ample food meant people could produce other goods for sale or trade $$$
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17.3 Growth of Trade & Commerce
What dynasty first started trade |
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17.3 Growth of Trade & Commerce
What were the 5 main trade products? |
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- Rice
- Silk
- Tea
- Jade
- Porcelain
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17.3 Growth of Trade & Commerce
Where were the major trade destination of China products |
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17.3 Growth of Trade & Commerce
What were the 4 reasons for growth in trade? |
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- Wealthy landowners eager for luxury
- Helped by water transportation (barges on river
- Improvements in navigation (charts & magnetic compass)
- Paper money for currency made trade easier
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17.3 Growth of Trade & Commerce
What were the 4 characteristics of commercial growth |
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- Merchants selling lots of goods & making good money
- Traders sending large ships to bring back foreign goods
- Life was good & comfortable
- Big cities grew much bigger
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17.4 Urbanization
During the Song dynasty China had the biggest cities in the world. The city of ________ had how many people? At that same time how large were European cities? |
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| Hangzhou had $2 Million people, where European cities only had 50,000. |
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17.4 Urbanization
Why did cities grow so large? |
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- More job opportunities
- More comforts & pleasures
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17.4 Urbanization
What were 4 characteristics of cities? |
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- Many people
- Big markets & lots of shops
- Entertainment
- Women in cities were thought to be inferior to men. Not true in the country where women worked aside men.
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17.4 Urbanization
What were 3 results of urbanization? |
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- Stimulated culture - arts
- Buying & selling of goods
- Hobbies & recreation for city dwellers
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| A ____ is a farm tool used to break u and even out plowed ground. |
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| The ____ ____ has containers attached to a loop of chain to lift water and carry it where it is wanted. |
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| A ____ is a long boat with a flat bottom. Used for transporting goods along a river or smooth body of water. |
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| The form of money used in a country. |
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