Imperial China - Song Dynasty - Agrarian Reforms

The Song Dynasty by Scott Ingram

Discussion:
Government investment in commoners' lives - increase food supply
Development of the iron industry - mass production of tools
Cash crops rotated with subsistence crops - market economy

Activity:
History journal

Imperial China - Song Dynasty - Hsin Fa (New Laws)

The Song Dynasty by Scott Ingram

Discussion:
The new scholarly class - tension between conservatives and reformers
Hsin Fa: taxation system, distribution of public money
Reduction of the military

Activity:
History journal

Imperial China - Song Dynasty - Foundation

The Song Dynasty by Scott Ingram

Discussion:
Zhao Kuangyin of the Zhou Dynasty in Northern China
Slow re-unification and dismantling of hereditary jiedushi governors
Re-instituting the Confucian examination system (again)

Activity:
History journal
Map study