HST 197 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13-14: Taoism
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Abundant supplies of food enabled people to pursue other interests and other industrial industries. Chinese craftworkers made a remarkable range of technological innovations. They discovered techniques for producing high quality porcelain. Made it lighter, thinner and adaptable to more uses. They also fired it with glazes to make it more aesthetically appealing. Demand for porcelain remained high in chinese societies. Archaeologists found porcelain at many sites along trade network roads. Chinese porcelain graced the tables of the wealthy and refined households in southeast. Asia, india, persia and port cities of east africa. Porcelain came to be known as chinaware. Tang and song craftsmen improved metallurgy techniques. Production of iron and steel surged in this era. The new techniques resulted in stronger metals. The found that they could use coke instead of coal in their furnaces and produces a superior grade metal. Most of the increased supply went into weaponry and agricultural tools.
