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DEVELOPMENTS
IN EAST ASIA
China: Song Dynasty:
- Highly centralized
- Imperial bureaucracy (appointed officials make
decisions)
- Bureaucrats must pass the Civil Service Exam (which is
based on knowledge of Confucianism)
- Rise of new scholarly leaders
- Confucianism used to maintain + justify the rule
- Hierarchical, and patriarchal, everyone is
subject to their rulers
- Increase in China's productive power compared to
previous dynasties
- Champa Rice pop. growth -> urbanization
->
commercialization
- Innovations: printing, compass, gunpowder, etc.
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