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A man named Bi Sheng carved individual pieces of characters or letters on block clay. Each movable type had a chinese letter or character on it. You could use them anywhere anytime. It was invented and was better than the block printing which took a long time. Movable block printing was easier and faster Northern Sung made the military subordinate to the civil government.

The Sung a welfare state that included housing and care for the elderly, state hospitals, low-interest loans for peasants, state orphanages, free pharmacies for the poor, and fire stations and libraries in the large cities.

The Sung made peace with The Khitans in the north east and in 1044 they made peace with western Hsia in hte north west.

A son of the emperor ran away to Southern China and started a Sung Dynasty there. He didn't have very strong military but he developed a strong trading route because the traditional silk road trading route had been cut off.
 * From 960 to 1279.
 * After the fall of the T'ang dynasty a new dynasty, the Sung, partially reunified the country.
 * The capital was Kaifeng and was located on the Yellow River.
 * Lasted for 170 years. Conquring the Northern part of China.
 * L ost the northern part of China to a new empire, the Chin, and relocated its capital to the south in Hangchow.
 * They then lost the southern part of China to the Chin empire again.
 * Sung Dynasty lasted for more than 300 years because of advancments in the society.
 * There culture brought rise to a new religon.
 * The positions in gov. were now held by people with years of ed. and degrees. only problem that rose was militaey power.Because of that Sung Dynasty ended.
 * With this rise in culture came a new religion, called Neo-Confucianism. This religion was thought of by a scholar named Chu Hsi.
 * For another one hundred and fifty years, the Sung ruled in the south in the period known as the Southern Sung (1127-1279).
 * The most important economic innovation of the Sung was the widespread use of money. In the form of copper coins and later silver, the use of money greatly accelerated trade within China and led to the development of credit
 * , cities slowly converted from being administrative centers into commercial centers.