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The Song Dynasty - Online Term Paper

The Song Dynasty

lasted over 300 years, from 960 to 1279. Their history
is divided into two periods of Northern and Southern Song. The Song period was
one of China's most peaceful and prosperous era. However the Song government was
corrupt and weak.

The Song Dynasty, or Sung Dynasty was a period in which the Chinese
government was very weak. In the beginning General Chao K'uang-yin, also known
as Sung T'ai Tsu, was forced to become emperor in order to unify China. Sung
T'ai Tsu created a national army under his direct control. He, and only he had
control of the military. Once he had passed away his less competent successors
were unable to keep the military under control, the military increasingly ...

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was the highest degree and appointed on government posts. From this time on,
civil servants became China's most envied elite, replacing the hereditary nobles
and landlords.

The Song dynasty only extended over to the parts of earlier Chinese
empires. The Khitans controlled the northeastern territories and the His Hsia
controlled the northwestern territories. The Song emperors were unable to
recover these lands so they were forced to make peace with the Khitans and the
Hsi Hsia. They gave massive amounts of payments to the barbarians, under these
peace terms, it depleted the state treasury and cause heavy payments on
taxpaying peasants.

About 100 years after the Songs first started ruling over China, their
government started to go through a major decline. Officials that held important
government positions were corrupt. Wealthy merchants that became rich from
foreign trade found ways to avoid paying taxes. The peasants began to rebel when
the heavy taxes were placed on ...

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Added: 2/22/2007 10:20:20 AM
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