HAN DYNASTY

MILITARY TECHNOLOGIES

• Modernized Crossbow
• Larger production of metals : steal and iron
• Silk
• Modernized gun trigger

RURAL TECHNOLOGIES

• Production of bricks
• Wells made of bricks
• Irrigation systems
• Fertilizer
• Animal-drawn plows

CITY TECHNOLOGIES

• Steal & Iron
• Silk and other fabrics
• Busts and Sculptures

POPULATION/SOCIAL CLASSES

• Population is 60 million
• Peasants

FARMING DURING THE HAN DYNASTY

• Social Standing
• Wealth
• Cliques
• Groups not in cliques were: lone families, lone gate, orphan gate, lone and cold, lone and obscure, phaned and obscure, or orphaned and provincial.

SILK

• Imperial Factories and Private Factories
• Workers
• Silk in every day life
• Commercial Factories

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