and “served to mark the estate boundary of the Song dynasty official, Li Mao-ying, who obtained his Chin-Shi degree in 1226”. Chin-Shi, or jinshi in today’s pinyin, was the highest rank a ...

Seaborne commerce on a large scale in Asia dates to the Song Dynasty of China (A.D. 960-1270 ... Portable artifacts included an axe, a wooden ruler, and a bronze ladle—all useful items for ...

The Southern Song dynasty in China resisted Mongol domination for years ... He described the Mongol leader as wise and fair, ...

Mung beans (green beans) came from India during the Northern Song Dynasty. Potatoes, which are eaten both as a staple food and as a vegetable, came from the West. They are believed to have been ...

Genghis Khan's grandson, Kublai Khan, defeated the Chinese Southern Song in 1279, and for the first time all of China was under foreign rule. In 1271 Kublai Khan named his dynasty Yuan which ... much ...

In China, the Song Dynasty propelled an early industrial revolution between the 10th and 13th centuries. Industrial ...

A Chinese dynasty and kingdom existed roughly in parallel to the ... which assumed that the Son of Heaven (i.e., the Emperor) was superior to all other rulers. The Song also committed itself to an ...

Journal of Chinese History, p. 1. Charles Hartman presents an ambitious analysis of the workings of governance in Imperial China centered on the Song Dynasty (960–1279). Here he develops a new model ...

She’s been represented as an idolatrous Yemeni sun worshiper, the lover in the Bible’s “Song of Songs” and the founding mother of an Ethiopian dynasty. Today ... in the Bible’s book of Kings. The ...

Mung beans (green beans) came from India during the Northern Song Dynasty. Potatoes, which are eaten both as a staple food and as a vegetable, came from the West. They are believed to have been ...