Intellectualpostclassical+China


 * Intellect **

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The period of the Tang, Song and Sui Dynasties produced many inventions that helped culture, voyages as well as military power. According to Peter N. Stearns, Author of World Civilizations, the “Tang and Song eras are remembered as a time of remarkable Chinese accomplishments in science, technology, literature, and the fine arts (Stearns, 388).”

Economic growth and social prosperity rose with the new technological inventions during the Tang and Song Eras. “One of the most important of the many technological advances made in the Tang area, the inventions of explosive powder, at first had little impact on warfare….By the late Song, however, explosive powder was widely used by the imperial armies in a variety of grenades and bombs that were hurled at the enemy by catapults (Stearns 389).” Although they were equipped with many other military inventions, the explosive powder was one of the most important.
 * EXPLOSIVE POWDER**

Although there were more inventions during the Tang Era than the Song, many were key figures in future events. “Compasses were applied to sea navigation for the first time in the Song Period. The abacus was introduces to help merchants count their profits and tax collectors keep track of revenues (Stearns, 389).” With the invention of moveable type, after centuries of block printing, great advances were made in the production of written records and books. “Combined with paper, which the Chinese had invented in the Han period, printing made it possible for them to attain a level of literacy the excelled that of any preindustrial civilization.”
 * MAJOR INVENTIONS DURING THE SONG ERA**