ASIAN 204 Study Guide - Final Guide: Kim Bu-Sik, George Psalmanazar, Taebong

• School: U of M
• Department: Asian Studies
• Course: ASIAN 204
• Professor: Christian De Pee

Document Summary

Provided more nutritious benefit than wheat or millet allowing for denser settlements. Abundance of rivers and streams allowed for easier shipping. Reduced cost of transportation allowing for regional specialization to be more economically feasible which allowed for a population increase (50 million to 100 million during 742-1102) Surplus produce from the south allowed for increased availability of food on the commercial market in turn allowed for specialization among farmers and among craftsmen. Copper coins carried a certain equivalent material value, the face value of a paper bill far exceeded its material value. Marked the first time that something useless was circulated as something useful. Entries that gave advice to the reader ordering food, proper behavior--- indicates that life in hangzhou at least in some respects differed from life in other cities. Give evidence of the adaptation of northerners to life in the south, including transplantation of northern versions of southern food back to the south.