HIST 1250 Lecture : f13hist1250lect4.pdf
7 Oct 2014
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This is when technologically and scientific advances took place: agricultural innovahons. Rice was the major agricultural innovation: populahon growth. 50m in china in 800ce and by 1200 there were 150m: urbanizahon and centralizahon. The state played role in everything: neo confucianism. Status quote when it came to scientific community was about maintaining it. The state didn encourage on developing new scientific ideas. Artisans was a larger group but has a lower status than the learned scientist: arhsans vs. learned scienhsts . Artisians were illiterate and learned by doing but they were numerous: innovahons, e. g. the wheelbarrow, gunpowder, porcelain china, the umbrella, suspension bridges, etc, yet: this doesn"t help us as historians. What is important is that chinese technology made them world leaders. All the resources was owned by the state. Wood is carved and inked and then printed on paper: (b) hydraulics, (c) iron and gunpowder.
