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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.
This is a list of political entities in the 10th century (901–1000) AD. Political entities. Map of the Old World in 900 AD. Name ... Song dynasty: Bianjing, Lin'an ...
This list includes defunct and extant monarchical dynasties of sovereign and non-sovereign statuses at the national and subnational levels. Monarchical polities each ruled by a single family—that is, a dynasty, although not explicitly styled as such, like the Golden Horde and the Qara Qoyunlu—are included.
This list divides the world using the seven-continent model, with islands grouped into adjacent continents. Variations on are noted below and discussed in the following articles: Continent, Boundaries between the continents of Earth, and List of transcontinental countries.
Zhao Rukuo [1] [2] (simplified Chinese: 赵汝适; traditional Chinese: 趙汝适; pinyin: Zhào Rǔkuò; 1170–1231), also romanised as Zhao Rugua, [3] Chau Ju-kua, [4] or misread as Zhao Rushi, [5] was a Chinese government official and writer during the Song dynasty. He wrote a two-volume book titled Zhu Fan Zhi.
Pages in category "Song dynasty" The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Fall of the Han dynasty marking the beginning of the Six Dynasties period Chang'an: Sui dynasty and Tang dynasty: China: 581 907 fall of the Tang dynasty marking the beginning of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period Kaifeng: Song dynasty: China: 960 1127 moved to Hangzhou: Hangzhou: Song dynasty: China: 1127 1279 Kublai Khan integrated ...
Part of a series on the History of China Timeline Dynasties Historiography Prehistoric Paleolithic Neolithic (c. 8500 – c. 2000 BCE) Yellow, Yangtze, and Liao civilization Ancient Xia (c. 2070 – c. 1600 BCE) Shang (c. 1600 – c. 1046 BCE) Late Shang (c. 1250 – c. 1046 BCE) Zhou (c. 1046 – c. 256 BCE) Western Zhou (1046–771 BCE) Eastern Zhou (771–256 BCE) Spring and Autumn (c. 770 ...