China Develops a New Economy

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China Develops a New Economy

• Chapter 17
• Standard 7.3

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17.2 Agriculture Characteristics

• 10th to 13th Centuries
• Terraced Hillsides to grow crops
• Irrigation using chain pumps
• Improved plows Harrows
• H2O Buffalos pull plows

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• Rice fields on terraced hills

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Agriculture Characteristics Cont.

• Rice
• New fast-growing, drought-resistant type
• Plants start to be grown in seedbeds
• Transplanted to paddies
• Hard work many people
• Cotton, sugar, tea, mulberry trees also grown

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Why Agriculture Changed

• 10th 13th Centuries
• Need good rice growing region
• Farmers move south
• New type of rice
• Improved tools plow harrow
• Fertilization of crops

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17.3 Growth of Trade Commerce Characteristics

• Local trade
• Along canals w/ barges
• Long boat flat bottom
• Travel 45 mi per day
• Foreign trade
• w/ junks
• Hold several hundred men
• Import indigo, spices, silver, ivory, coral

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Trade Commerce Cont.

• Peasants sell surplus crops, animals, homemade
  goods
• Move goods w/ oxcarts pack animals
• Shops along streets bridges
• Paper money
• Copper coins traded in _at_ deposit shops

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Earthenware Oxcart Han Dynasty
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Why Commerce Developed

• 10th-13th Centuries
• Vast system of rivers canals
• Navigation Improves gt long sea voyages easier
• landowners want more goods
• Paper money makes trade easier

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17.4 Characteristics of Urbanization

• Chinese Cities (10th 13th Centuries)?
• Largest in world
• Crowded exciting
• Many types of people
• Theatres outdoor entertainers
• Restaurants, wine, teahouses food drink
• Signs identify goods being sold
• Vendors sell food from trays on heads
• Silk, silver, fans, etc.

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Why Urbanization Developed

• 10th 13th Centuries
• Increase in commerce gt more people come to city
  to trade
• Shops social life draw large landowners to move
  to cities