History of the Song Dynasty
Автор:
Jesse Russell, 98 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5106-1117-5
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Song Dynasty (Chinese: ??; pinyin: Song chao; 960–1279, some say 1276) of China was a ruling dynasty that controlled China proper and southern China from the middle of the 10th century into the last quarter of the 13th century. The Song Dynasty is considered a high point of classical Chinese innovation in science and technology, an era that featured prominent intellectual figures such as Shen Kuo and Su Song and the revolutionary use of gunpowder weapons (catapult-projected bombs, fire lances, flamethrowers, and land mines). However, it was also a period of political and military turmoil, with opposing and often aggressive political factions formed at court, which impeded progress in many ways. The frontier management policies of the Chancellor Wang Anshi exacerbated hostile conditions along the Chinese-Vietnamese border, sparking a border war with the Ly Dynasty. Although this conflict was fought to a mutual draw, there was subsequently...
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