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Tang and Song Achievements
Chapter 14 Section 2
TN 7.22
Summarize the significance of the rapid agricultural, commercial, and technological
development during the Song Dynasties
TN 2.23
Trace the spread of Chinese technologies to other parts of Asia, the Islamic world, and
Europe including papermaking, wood-block printing, the compass, and gunpowder.
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Answer the following questions using pages (414-419) in your textbook.
1. How did the dragon backbone pump change crop irrigation during the Song
dynasty?
2. What crops were grown in China?
3. How did the discovery of fast-ripening rice expand rice growth in China?
4. How did the surplus of food effect China’s population? What was the
population, at its peak, under the Song dynasty?
5. What was China’s capital, and largest, city during the Tang dynasty? What
was its population?
6. What different religions were found in this capital city?
7. What was the capital city during the Song dynasty?
8. What made China expand its wealth, and become richer than ever before?
9. What role did the Grand Canal (a canal that connected the Yangtze and
Yellow Rivers) play in trade?
10. During the Tang dynasty, most foreign trade was done how? What was the
most valuable export?
11. What type of trade became important during the Song dynasty? What
valuable product was developed during this time?
12. What result did China’s trade with other lands have on Chinese society?
(Who became important members?)
13. What was the name of the Chinese artist who painted murals that celebrated
Buddhism and nature?
14. What are the names of the most famous Chinese poets, who many readers
still enjoy today?
15. Who was China’s most famous female poet (during the Song dynasty)?
16. During which dynasty did the Chinese invent paper?
17. What is woodblock printing? How does it work?
18. What was gunpowder originally used for? How did it eventually change the
course of history?
19. What is a compass? During what Chinese Dynasty was it invented? Which
dynasty perfected it?
20. How was the magnetic compass significant to world history?
21. How was movable type, invented during the Song dynasty, better then
woodblock printing?
22. What effect did paper money, invented during the Song dynasty, have on
China?