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__//** Gabrielle Kearney ** ** and ** ** Sierra Nelson **//__ Movable Type was invented during the Song dynasty. With Movable Type a printer could arrange blocks of individual characters in a frame to make up a page for printing. Therefore, printers (similar to scribes) no longer had to carve the words of a whole page into one large block.The invention of reusable, movable type made books cheaper and more readily available.
 * 1. ** ** Find 6 major inventions of the Tang and Song dynasty in China. Describe each invention. Find an image of each invention. Explain the impact of each invention. **

During the Tang Dynasty a Taoist Monk searching for an elixir of immortality serendipitously stumbled upon gunpowder by mixing 75 parts saltpeter with 15 parts charcoal and 10 parts sulfur. This mixture exhibited no life-lengthening properties, but it exploded with a flash when exposed to an open flame. The development of gunpowder, in time, led to the creation of explosive weapons such as bombs, grenades, small rockets, and cannons. Many assume that the Chinese used this discovery only for fireworks, but nothing could be farther from the truth.During the Song Dynasty military forces used gunpowder devices against their primary enemy, the Mongols. These weapons included fie huo which translated means "flying fire." It is an arrow with a burning tube of gunpowder attached to the shaft. Flying fire arrows were miniature rockets, which propelled themselves into enemy ranks and inspired terror among both men and horses.  Paper Money was crated during the Song dynasty. it was a promise to redeem later for some other object of value. The issue of credit notes was for a limited time and at some discount to the promised amount later. The Yuan Dynasty was the first dynasty in China to use paper currency as the predominant circulating medium.The original notes during the Yuan Dynasty were restricted in area and duration as in the Song Dynasty, but in the later course of the dynasty, they began printing paper money without restrictions on duration.in an effort to rein in economic expansion and end hyperinflation the new Ming dynasty ended paper money, and closed much of Chinese trade. The earliest Chinese compasses were not designed for navigation, but to order and harmonize their environments and buildings in accordance with the principles of Feng Shui. These early compasses were made using lodestone a form of the mineral magnetic that aligns itself with the Earth’s magnetic field. The Chinese navigational compass was in the form of a magnetic needle floating in a bowl of water. the Chinese in the Song Dynasty and continuing Yuan Dynasty did make use of a dry compass but this type never became as widely used in China as the wet compass. Porcelain was invented during Tang Dynasty. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, porcelain made in the city and other southern China kiln sites used crushed and refined pottery stones alone. It became an extremely important export and was associated with China so much it became known as "China," or "Chinaware."  **2.** ** How did the status of women change during the Tang and Song dynasties? ** The status of women changed during the Tang and Song dynasties was women's status declined during this time and was also especially true to the upper classes in cities. This was because women's work was less important to the family's prosperity and status. Also women had a new custom of binding feet of the upper-class girls. why when a girl was very young they bound their feet tightly with cloth. why eventually broke the arch and curled all but the big toe under. This produced what was called a "lily-foot". but, when they bound their feet they were crippled for life.

3.** Describe Foot binding **

Around 1100 AD, a fashion started at the emperor's court for women to bind their feet. Women thought that to be beautiful they needed tiny feet. They achieved this feat by wrapping tight bandages around the feet of little girls, about five or six years old.The bandages were so tight they broke the girls’ toes and bent them underneath their feet so they had to walk on them like that. after a few years girls would get used to it and their feet stopped hurting so much. Women with bound feet couldn’t walk very well and when they had to work in the fields often they would crawl.Women with bound feet were crippled for life. To others in society, such a woman reflected the wealth and prestige of her husband, who could afford such a beautiful but impractical wife. Soon enough the standard for beautiful feet were only three inches in length. In addition some of the earliest versions of the story of Cinderella came from China. In these versions, the point of the story is that the Prince loves Cinderella because she has the smallest feet of any girl in the kingdom and the slipper will only fit her.  ** 4. Describe the Gentry class: ** The Gentry class was people of a gentle birth, good breeding, or high social position of rulers which were a part of a rigid class str ucture. ctu

**5. How was the Civil Service reformed under the Tang and Song?**


 * 6. Describe what happened to Marco Polo. ** What had happened to Marco Polo was in a war when he was captured and put in Jail. There he met an author and he wrote a book about Polo's travels. After that Polo got married and had 3 kids.