1. Tang & Song Dynasty By: Ashton & Kearston

2. The Tang Dynasty Dynasty of prosperity and education Technology, art, and Poetry flourished EX. Printing Block Advanced in Agriculture and irrigation Increased harvests brought increased population

4. The Tang Dynasty Cont… Many historians agree that the Tang Dynasty was the most glistening Period in China’s history Founded in 618 and Ended in 907 Emperor Taizong (r. 627–50), China subdued its nomadic neighbors from the north and northwest, securing peace and safety on overland trade routes reaching as far as Syria and Rome

5. Cont. Merchants, clerics, and envoys from India, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Korea, and Japan thronged the streets of Chang'an, the capital, and foreign tongues were a common part of daily life. The end of the Tang Dynasty started during Emperor Xizong's reign when the notable Huang Chao Uprising broke out.

6. The Song Dynasty (960–1279) The early Northern Song dynasty witnessed the flowering of one of the supreme artistic expressions of Chinese civilization: monumental landscape paintinglandscape painting Under Emperor Huizong (r. 1100–25), himself an accomplished painter and calligrapher, imperial patronage and the ruler's direct involvement in establishing artistic direction reached a zenith.

7. Cont. The Song Dynasty introduced many ways of living and acting that we now see as thoroughly Chinese. China’s first population explosion happened during the song dynasty. The first dynasty where they bound women’s feet.

8. Cont. Political shift to a society governed by a central bureaucracy of scholar- officials The Northern Song Dynasty fell in 1127 AD, when the Jurchen people invaded and conquered Northern China.