Chapter 8 (China and the World)

By this point, China had reached its golden age. A Bureaucracy and exam system took place, and also the population was growing, there was an economic boom, and urbanization. Women in the Song Dynasty had it rough, they were seen as weak and distracting. On this time period, women were seen attractive it they had small feet so women would literally bind their foot to make them look smaller and so the men would find them attractive. Buddhism was growing now but in a new form of Buddhism which was Mahayana. There was a lot of comparison between China and Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. China ruled Vietnam for 1,000 years (111 BCE- 939 CE). China had a great impact on Eurasia. Salt making, paper, printing, gun powder, and the compass were all involved. There were lots of finished goods from China.But eventually China lost its state support which was the crisis of Chinese Buddhism.