Chapter 8, China and The World

This chapter focuses on classical China. China will be the next superpower, China had a major boom after the grand canal was made. Women in China were very different then what it used to be elite women have bound their homes and bound to their husbands by the process of footbinding. The Chinese. The poor Chinese women were freer then these women as they were not bound to their home. During this golden age of China, there was a rebirth of Confucianism and they used this to restore order in China. China continued to grow and flourish their empire they claimed many different countries like Korea and Japan but not Vietnam. vietnam wanted to be apart of the Roman empire. China had a huge economic growth in the tang and song dynasties. China was the major superpower that they hoped to be and they benefited immensely from economic trade with having the silk road and sea road help with trade. China also saw a wide spread of a new religion, that religion is Buddhism.
The golden age of China saw a lot of growths and became the superpower of the world at the time and was far more advanced than any other civilization at this point in time. The spread of Buddhism from India to China was huge and it covered many vast regions in China. The Chinese made Buddhism Chinese and changed it from what it originally was.

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