HIST 1550 Lecture 7: HIST 1550 LECTURE 7 Notes - Prof. Marme
2 Oct 2018
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*based on prof. marm "s writing on suzhou: suzhou. 9/28/18: founded in 514 b. c. (in the time of confucius, continued to be a secondary city behind other cities, up to the ming/qing period, suzhou prefecture: 1/160 prefectures. But, they can get heavy: paper money: the ming pushes for the use of it, because of convenience, by middle-late ming, the paper money gets printed too much. It circulates but is not a meaningful mean of currency: polders, ridged fields, new industries, cotton, silk, society (in order of stature, scholars, peasant, artisan, merchant.
