Goryeo adopted Confucianism as its political ideology and established ... Goryeo engaged in brisk trade with many countries, including the Song dynasty. Many traders from Song, Central Asia, Arabia, ...

The scholars had to be very familiar with the Confucian classical texts ... Faster growing rice distributed during the Song Dynasty helped prevent famine. NOVA: Did printing play a role in ...

Until the recent discovery, the world’s oldest manuscript of the Confucian Analects originated from the Song Dynasty between the end of the 12th century and early 13th century. The oldest one ...

Song Dynasty: While weaker than the Tang empire ... scientific innovation and the adoption of Neo-Confucianism as the official state ideology.