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The Song dynasty was the first in world history to issue banknotes or true paper money and the first Chinese government to establish a permanent standing navy. This dynasty saw the first surviving records of the chemical formula for gunpowder, the invention of gunpowder weapons such as fire arrows, bombs, and the fire lance.
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The Hua Yi Tu (華夷圖, Map of China and the Barbarian Countries) is a map engraved as a stone stele dated from 1136, around the time of the Song dynasty. It is the earliest surviving map that displays maritime connections between China and other foreign states. [2] The stele is now in the Stele Forest or Beilin Museum (碑林; pinyin ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pearl River County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]
The Song dynasty conquered and annexed Jingnan. 965: 23 February: The Later Shu emperor Meng Chang surrendered to the Song army at his capital Chengdu. 969: 12 March: Muzong was murdered by his servants on a hunting trip. 13 March: Shizong's son Emperor Jingzong of Liao became emperor of the Liao dynasty. 971: Southern Han was conquered and ...
The Hainei Huayi Tu map is lost, but a later map of China from the Southern Song period, the Huayi tu map engraved in 1136 on a stele, contains names of foreign places inscribed on the edges that it took from Jia Dan's map. [11] The map shows 500 settlements and a dozen rivers in China, and includes large parts of Korea and Vietnam.
Song was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty with its capital at Shangqiu. The state was founded soon after King Wu of Zhou conquered the Shang dynasty to establish the Zhou dynasty in 1046 BC. It was conquered by the state of Qi in 286 BC, during the Warring States period.
The History of Song with its 496 chapters is the largest of the Twenty-Four Histories. [2] It contains 47 chapters of Imperial biographies, 162 chapters covering Song dynasty records (誌; 志; Zhì), 32 chapters of tables (showing genealogy, etc.) and 255 chapters of historical biographies.