How would history be impacted if there were no connection between internal and external factors in a Golden Age? The Tang & Song dynasties lasted a long time but they all experienced problem from time to time, overall they managed well to maintain unity that can be considered a Golden Age. When having a Golden Age the civilization has to be at its best point where everything is in successful. The internal and external factors that helped promote a Golden Age in the Tang and Song dynasties were cultural diffusion, social structures, and innovations. One external connections that promoted the Golden Ages for the Tang and Song was cultural diffusion. In Document 1 the map shows us how one country united with another by using an arrow that illustrates ideas that were being passed on from China to Japan like …show more content…
In Document 3 it shows the Organization and Movement in Chinese Society chart which illustrated how there is a chance for social mobility and you don’t need to always stay in that social class for example if you were a Merchant and you got education and bought land you were able to move up the chart and become a Gentry. Ultimately this supports the idea of a Golden Age to occur in the Tang and Song dynasties because it helped promote a more stable civilization and which helps organization and a decrease in unfairity between the people.
Innovations are both internal and external factors that helped provide the Tang and Song dynasties have a Golden Age. In Documents 2 and 4 both illustrate items like paper, compass, gunpowder, and paper money were being traded from the Tang and Song dynasties to other places they had communication with like Korea and Europe. Therefore this shows how innovations helped the Tang and Song dynasties have a Golden Age because of early communications and bonding with other countries that can influence decisions in the
There is a great art that can be found in being able to describe the world of an ancient civilization. Especially in one where large man made walls form because of the creases of a sleeping dragon’s back, or that the layout of the fields and streams of a small village create the image of a galloping unicorn when looked from up above. Yet, this is Imperial China, or as Barry Hughhart writes in his Novel Bridge of Birds, “an Ancient China that Never Was” (Hughhart 1984). This novel explores the history and the world of Ancient China, and the tales of the people who have walked across the land. Offering a summary of the book, we will be able to analyze
During the Tang and Song dynasty, many excellent achievements have been accomplished which are still being preserved and used widely over centuries. Their citizens were excelled in many fields with several of new and practical inventions which all directly affected the citizens’ lives.
...ok, p. 251). Brook also uses characters from various stories in Li Le’s commonplace book, Miscellaneous Notes on Things Seen and Heard to contrast the wistful remembrances of Zhang Tao and Gu Yanwu (Brook, p. 254). What Brook determines from Li Le’s account is crucial, “…However thoroughly commerce had replaced paternalism and deference with wage relationship, or however well some individuals managed to step over social barriers and move up the social ladder…the class system of overlordship and deference that held the Chinese world together at the beginning of the Ming was still there at the end” (Brook, p. 260). This ultimately produces Brook’s analysis, “Without commercial networks, many gentry would not have survived the dynastic transition” (Brook, p. 262). This conclusion reveals the ultimate disparity between the ideology of the Ming gentry and the reality.
...ed Chinese culture then and still does now. The Mongol Global Awakening caused new technological advancement, such as carpenters using general adze less and adapted more specialized tools. There were new crops developed as well (235). The Mongol preeminence was destroyed as a result of the Black Plague.
The Golden Age is a story pattern archetype that refers to a perfect period that is ultimately utopian; specifically speaking, it is an era in the past when a civilization or a certain type of society enjoyed the pleasures of materialistic abundance, prosperity, peace, and happiness. Historically speaking, many civilizations in ancient times had their golden age, which is a peak phase a civilization achieves way before its ultimate decline or eventual demise. In this case, the empires of Babylon, Assyria, Egypt, Ancient Greece, Persia, and most notably, the Roman Empire are great examples of legendary civilizations that experienced one or more golden age phases. Although this may be true in history, the golden age as an archetypical story pattern
After the fall of the Yuan dynasty, a new empire in China rose up, Ming dynasty. They started on the marine trade around the world. And they traded good for with all the foreign countries and later they got paid with silvers. This lead to the increase in silver trade. The consequences of the global flow of silver during the period from 1450 to 1750 are decreasing in social life like low income for farmers or silver mines workers and changes in social class. Increase and decrease in the economy through trading and money value and changing the way people paying money during daily life basic.
Major changes in political structure, social and economic life define the Sui, Tang, and Song dynasties. Each period laid the foundation for the next, with changes and improvements to create a new order.
The Tang Dynasty (618 -907 A.D), also known as China’s glorious revelation, was a time of major change both politically and economically in the Chinese Empire. During this time period, trade became greater than ever. The military power strengthened. The population also increased during this time period from fifty million to eighty million in just two centuries with its large population base, the dynasty was able to raise professional and conscripted armies of hundreds of thousands of troops to contend with nomadic powers in dominating Inter Asia. The Tang also has a strong influence on its neighboring states such as Korea (which was at the time made if of three kingdoms) and Japan. During this time period the Silk Road expanded and trade
In Document 1,2, 3, and 4 the Han dynasty is shown making things and inventing things for their citizens to use. During this time period the Han dynasty was described as the Golden Age in China. Confucianism gave a new way to life. The Historical context is that during this time period when the Yellow river flooded the crops and trade would be put to a stop.
Tang Empire Rise date of empire: 618 AD Fall date of empire: 907 AD Dates of dominance: ~626 (rule of Taizong) Tang China Empire b.) The author’s thesis of this chapter is that in the beginning, China was known for its intolerance and when it realized that it was being threatened on all sides, it knew that it had to start having tolerance for different races, cultures and religious groups to be successful. The Tang empire was changed and now very tolerant, they’re religion was now Buddhism, and Chinese families started to intermarry with different groups of people. Her argument for including this Empire in her book is that it rose to become a hyperpower in the means of being world dominant in every factor.
Have you ever wondered what Asian Empires were like? How they lived? Or even, how they came into power? I know I have. Therefore, I will be informing you on two of the main Asian Empires from the 1300s to the late 1800s. The Ming Dynasty and the Tokugawa Shogunate, both similar yet entirely different.
recover these lands so they were forced to make peace with the Khitans and the
Chinese Buddhism was more than eight centuries old by the time the Song Dynasty began in 960. The bustling towns and cities that developed during the Song Dynasty was full of nuns and monks who were a part of the street scene, all over the Chinese heartland the landscape was full of pagodas and monasteries, domesticating Buddhism. The Buddhism that came about during the Song Dynasty was considerably unlike that of the Tang dynasty. New developments of Song Buddhism that became well known was the dominant form of elite monastic Buddhism during the Song period, which was the growth of Chan Buddhism and in the twentieth century there was a dispute between Caodong and Linji traditions of Chan that competed on approaches to the enlightenment and
Many viewed this period of time as a golden age in the annals of Chinese history as the Silk Road rose to its peak in history. Because the Silk Road was so huge, it ran through a lot of land space. The enormous stretch by this route encompassed a lot of different ethnicities from the Europeans to the Middle East. Foreign languages were a norm in Tang China due to the massive numbers of foreign merchants that travel down the Silk Road. The large amount of foreign exposure influenced different levels of civilization throughout Tang China especially at the middle class and upper class as they had more exposure and interaction to merchants and foreign
Today we can look around ourselves and see thousands of technical innovations that make life easier; But if we take a step back and ask ourselves “How?” we will soon realize that most often, these technological advancements did not just “poof” into existence, but are usually the outcome of building upon yesterday’s technology. If we follow this cycle back into time, we can attribute almost any modern day invention to an ancient civilization during its golden age. China was no exception. China’s Song and Tang dynasties fostered scientific advances comparable to Rome’s during its Pax Romana. The most significant and impacting of these were the development of primitive gunpowder and porcelain of the Tang and paper money, and the magnetic compass of the Song Dynasties. Although these may seem very far off, if you look hard enough, you can see traces of their impacts in society today because most of the advancements today we owe to them.