Sui Dynasty: Reunified China, Built Grand Canal, Tang Dynasty: Brought back Civil Service Exams, based on Confucian ideas, Song Dynasty: Improved irrigation, Developed new kinds of rice, Used steel farming tools, Created 2 types of printing (block and movable type), Created Paper, Created Gunpowder and Fire lance, Built ships with rudders and sails, Created the magnetic compass, Yuan Dynasty: began by Kublai Khan, Mongols have control of China, increased trade along the silk road, over land and sea, Used Marco Polo as an ambassador, leading to Europeans becoming interested in Chinese goods, Ming Dynasty: Brought back Civil Service Exams after the Yuan Dynasty, Built the Forbidden City, Sent Zheng He on many voyages to promote trade, Sea voyages were expensive and eventually took on a position of Isolationism, Limited outside cultural diffusion, Reconstructed the Great Wall ,

Imperial China Dynasties

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