Economicpostclassical+China

Anda Sommers
 * __ Economics of Post Classical China __**
 * Sui Dynasty (589-618 CE) **
 * Built Grand Canal
 * Build some of the boundary walls
 * Focused on booty
 * Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) **
 * Increase in technology/inventions
 * Repaired boundary walls
 * Education system was improved (more educated people)
 * More tests made for more scholars
 * Buddhism was wealthy
 * The people working in monasteries could not be taxed
 * Silk road reopened Chinese and Buddhism Islamic exchange
 * Song Dynasty (960-1279 CE) **
 * Less focus on booty, more focus on books. (Books not booty!)
 * Did not spend as much money on military as Tang (still bad thriving cities)
 * Nomads from the north (Liao dynasty) made the Song pay tribute in order to not invade
 * Scholar gentry where well paid
 * Wang Anshi caused the dynasty to rise of a little bit but it fell once again
 * Agricultural boom
 * New farming inventions
 * North and south trade took place in Grand Cannel, crops grew in south and they made goods in north.
 * Junks = armed merchant boats
 * Merchant class made bands of guilds
 * Flying money allows the economy to expand
 * Protection of money results in higher percentage of trade
 * Economic growth allowed for expansion of cities


 * Feudalist Japan **
 * Small feudal estates creating their own little economies
 * No large scale trade