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Developments in East Asia

  • Government Developments in the Song Dynasty

    • Imperial Bureaucracy

      • Qin Dynasty (221 BCE - 207 BCE)

      • Continuity across centuries and dynasties

      • Expanded under the Song

    • Meritocracy and the Civil Services Exam

      • Emperor Song Taizu

      • Expanded educational opportunities to the lower class

      • Based on Confucian texts

      • Upward mobility

      • Good pay used up surplus of wealth

  • Economic Developments in Postclassical China

    • Gunpowder

      • Innovators during the Song Dynasty were the first to make guns

    • Agricultural Productivity

      • Champa rice

        • Quick maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season

      • Manure

      • Water wheels, pumps, and terraces

    • Manufacturing and Trade

      • Coal

        • Also known as “black earth”

      • Steel

        • Bridges, gates, ship anchors, and agriculture

    • Proto-industrialization

      • Taxes

        • Workers paid for labor, leading to increased circulation of money

    • Tributes

      • Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia were tributary states

      • Stimulated trade

  • Social Structures in China

    • Filial Piety

      • Respect and care of parents and elders

    • Scholar Gentry

      • New class created by bureaucratic expansion

      • Outnumbered the aristocracy

      • Educated in Confucian philosophy

    • Role of Women

      • Respected, but expected to defer to men

      • Foot binding among aristocratic families

  • Intellectual and Cultural Developments

    • Paper and printing

    • Woodblock printing

    • Reading and poetry

      • Studied and produced by Confucian scholars

  • Religious Diversity in China

    • Buddhism

      • Theravada

        • Personal spiritual growth

        • Meditation

        • Self-discipline

        • Southeast Asia

      • Mahayana

        • Spiritual growth and service

        • China and Korea

      • Tibetan

        • Chanting

        • Tibet

    • Neo-Confucianism

      • Combined rational though with the abstract ideas of Daoism and Buddhism

      • Emphasized ethics

      • Popular in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam

Developments in East Asia

  • Government Developments in the Song Dynasty

    • Imperial Bureaucracy

      • Qin Dynasty (221 BCE - 207 BCE)

      • Continuity across centuries and dynasties

      • Expanded under the Song

    • Meritocracy and the Civil Services Exam

      • Emperor Song Taizu

      • Expanded educational opportunities to the lower class

      • Based on Confucian texts

      • Upward mobility

      • Good pay used up surplus of wealth

  • Economic Developments in Postclassical China

    • Gunpowder

      • Innovators during the Song Dynasty were the first to make guns

    • Agricultural Productivity

      • Champa rice

        • Quick maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season

      • Manure

      • Water wheels, pumps, and terraces

    • Manufacturing and Trade

      • Coal

        • Also known as “black earth”

      • Steel

        • Bridges, gates, ship anchors, and agriculture

    • Proto-industrialization

      • Taxes

        • Workers paid for labor, leading to increased circulation of money

    • Tributes

      • Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia were tributary states

      • Stimulated trade

  • Social Structures in China

    • Filial Piety

      • Respect and care of parents and elders

    • Scholar Gentry

      • New class created by bureaucratic expansion

      • Outnumbered the aristocracy

      • Educated in Confucian philosophy

    • Role of Women

      • Respected, but expected to defer to men

      • Foot binding among aristocratic families

  • Intellectual and Cultural Developments

    • Paper and printing

    • Woodblock printing

    • Reading and poetry

      • Studied and produced by Confucian scholars

  • Religious Diversity in China

    • Buddhism

      • Theravada

        • Personal spiritual growth

        • Meditation

        • Self-discipline

        • Southeast Asia

      • Mahayana

        • Spiritual growth and service

        • China and Korea

      • Tibetan

        • Chanting

        • Tibet

    • Neo-Confucianism

      • Combined rational though with the abstract ideas of Daoism and Buddhism

      • Emphasized ethics

      • Popular in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam

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