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	Encyclopedia: Southern Song Dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Song dynasty (Chinese: 宋朝) was a ruling dynasty in China from 960-1279.
		The northern Jin dynasty was overrun by the Mongols in 1234, who subsequently took control of northern China and maintained uneasy relations with the Southern Song court.
		On March 19, 1279 the Song army was defeated in its last battle, the Battle of Yamen, fought against the Mongols in the Pearl River Delta; subsequently a high official is said to have taken the boy emperor in his arms and jumped from a clifftop into the sea, drowning both of them.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Southern-Song-Dynasty (1258 words)

	Song Dynasty -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Song court retreated south of the (The longest river of Asia; flows eastward from Tibet into the East China Sea near Shanghai) Yangtze River and made their capital at (A city of eastern China on Hangzhou Bay; regarded by Marco Polo as the finest city in the world) Hangzhou.
		The northern Jin dynasty was overrun by the (A member of the nomadic peoples of Mongolia) Mongols in 1234, who subsequently took control of northern China and maintained uneasy relations with the Southern Song court.
		In 1276 the Southern Song court fled to (A province in southern China) Guangdong by boat, fleeing (A member of the nomadic peoples of Mongolia) Mongol invaders, leaving Emperor Gong of Song China behind.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/so/song_dynasty.htm (1750 words)

	Chronology of Asian maritime history
		During the Tang and Song dynasties it was customary for the crew of all ships, Chinese and foreign, to pray there before going to sea.
		Song dynasty (960-1279): reported date of the merchant ship referred to as 'Nanhai-1', found in the Yangjiang river in Guangdong province, with a cargo estimated at 60-80,000 items including high-quality ceramics, and thought to have been destined for the Middle East.
		Song records describe detailed customs inspections at Cham ports, where one fifth of each commodity was collected for the Cham king before remaining goods could be sold.
	www.maritimeasia.ws /topic/chronology.html (14220 words)

	Chinese Culture Village (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the 13th century during the Yuan Dynasty, the magnificent city of Hangzhou confronted a period of decline.
		Although it went through wars in Southern Song Dynasty, and suffered from discrimination as the remaining citizens of the overthrown dynasty, Hang Zhou appeared to be a prosperous and magic city in the eye of the Italian tourist.
		There are still a lot of westerners at his persuasion who come to Hang Zhou, the place this Italian called the finest and most splendid city in the world.
	www.ronghuai.net /marcopolo.html (694 words)

	Chinese Culture: Images
		Changan Ch'ang-an during the Tang Dynasty SOURCE: Jacques Gernet,History of Chinese Civilization,(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), map 14.
		Tang dynasty, braught to British Museum from Tun-huang, the location on the Silk road of many Buddhist caves and galleries.
		SOURCE: Bamber Gascoigne, The Dynasties and Treasures of China, (New York: Viking, 1973), p231, [picture originally from J.-J Matignon, Superstition, Crime et Misère en Chine, (Paris: 1899), p.
	acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu /~phalsall/images.html (2294 words)

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