<p> Name ______Date ______Hour ______</p><p>China’s Song Dynasty Internet Activity *Go to the website http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/song/ and answer the following questions in complete sentences on a separate sheet.</p><p>1. In 1000, 1100, 1200, and 1300, China was what? 2. Who travelled to Asia and China in the late 13th century? 3. During the Song, technology was very advanced in which fields? 4. The upper levels of the Song government were staffed by whom? How were they selected? 5. (View the map) In what year did the Southern Song Dynasty end? (On the top left of the page, click on Population Boom) 6. When did China’s population double? 7. What was China’s population by 1100? (Click on Paper Money near the center-top of the page above the picture) 8. What helped “grease the wheels of trade” during the Song Dynasty? 9. Before paper money, the basic currency in China had been what? 10. Why did merchants initiate the use of paper money? (Click on the link Iron and Steel) 11. List three things the Song used steel for. (Click on the link Textiles & Silk) 12. Most common people wore clothes made of what? What was the most highly prized fabric? 13. Women played what role in making silk? (Click on the link Ceramics) 14. Song kilns produced what items? 15. Drag the cursor over the vase on the top left. When was this vase produced? (Click on the link Technology at the top center of the page) 16. During the Song era, which new developments in rice cultivation increased rice yields? 17. Why was rice primarily grown south of the Yangtze River? (Click on the link Printing & Movable Type) 18. By the 9th century, Chinese craftsmen had developed what? Name ______Date ______Hour ______</p><p>(Click on the link Gunpowder at the top of the page) 19. Song military engineers found gunpowder was helpful with what type of warfare? 20. Gunpowder led to the development of what?</p>