Compare And Contrast The Achievements Of Tang And Song Dynasties

Song and Tang Dynasty’s Achievements

The Song and Tang Dynasty has the most successful and useful achievements. Farming was getting better, which lead to the economy getting better, and trading got better.

Li Yuan was the first emperor of the Tang Dynasty he was previously a general under the Sui Dynasty. Li Yuan and his son Li Shimin destroyed all rivals and established the Tang Dynasty. After eight years Li Shimin convinced his father to step down for his position for him to take the throne, taking the name Tang Taizong. Tang rulers carried empire-building to new extremes conquering territories into Central Asia. Chinese armies made neighboring lands of Vietnam, Tibet, and Korea to become tributary states.

The Song Dynasty Zhao Kuangyin reunited China and founded the Song Dynasty which was ruled for 319 years. Slightly longer than the tang. The song controlled less territory . The Song Dynasty also face constant threat of invaders in the north. Under the song the chin ease economy Expanded because of improved farming methods and opened boarder policy. The latter allowed a new type of faster growing rice to be imported from Southeast Asia. Farmers are able to produce two crops a year, one rice an one of the cash crops.As people began to be more educated they developed technology such as improved compass, shipbuilding,

innovations and gunpowder.
The Tang and Song dynasties merchants arrived by land or sea from India, Persia and the Middle East.

The Chinese built ships and their merchants carried goods to the southeast, to exchange spices and woods. To improve trade government issued paper money and all of chinas cities which we mainly center of government, were then the center of trade the Chinese perfected techniques in make porcelain . The developed glazes to decorate, tea service and was later called chinaware. After this great achievement, another came about, trade because more efficient, and the government issued paper money. China’s cities then became the center of

trade.
The rich culture of the Tang and Song Dynasty writers produced works of poetry. Poetry flowed from the Tang and Song Dynasty writers. Their short story’s had romance, fantasy and adventure and religion. Researchers only a few of the major of the Tang and Song Dynasty poets. This art had balance and harmony with strokes and lines. The Chinese also produced realist paintings of emperors or lively science of city life. Buddhist themes took over sculptures and included the chin ease architecture, the Chinese started making statues of Buddha. Which created an impression the people today see the Buddha as a Chinese god other than a Indian god.
Ancient China has been known to bury the dead with what would have severed them well in life. They developed a practice of entombing wives, animals with a man who was some what successful, was in a higher class, and wealth. But that was changed in the third century BC. Instead of human and animal remains small pottery were discovered in the later ones.
Also under the Tang and Song Dynasty’s the Chinese made breakthroughs with astronomy, agriculture medicine and military technology. Astronomers made accurate star maps and calendars. By the mid 800s the Chinese had discovered the chemistry of making explosives. At first it was use to make fireworks, and then in time it was put into military technology for canons, guns and other fire arms. Not only were the Chinese in the lead with sciences, and economics they also had achievements in mathematics believe it or not. The Tang and Song Dynasty recorded arithmetic, geometry, algebra ideas and help spread them.

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