Was the Tang and Song dynasty a golden age for ancient china?
1. Yes, they were. The Tang Dynasty was a period of great advances in literature and art. The Song Dynasty was most noted for its great advances in city development. 2. Geography, being that Japan was a group of islands, made it it far more defensible and isolated from the otherwise overwhelmingly huge Chinese civilizations. Only a few times were the Chinese to atempt to colonize Japan, and fewere still, were the times that they succeeded. This allowed Japan to develop a distinctly different culture. Korea, on the other hand, was only a penninsula, and not quite so defensible. It was invaded repeatedly by Chinese, Mongols, and even Japanese. The mix, added to the resentment of the Korean people to foreign occupation and abuse, helped to lead to their own distinct culture, which seems to be, still today, more aggressively nationalist than its neighbors. 4. Mongolian expansion afffected the eastern hemisphere mainly by destroying more corrupt, sedantary, abusive governments, like that of
