Around the dynastic Tang, Song, and early Ming Period, cuirasses and plates ( mingguangjia ) were also used, with more elaborate versions for officers in war.

The emperors of Sui dynasty, Tang dynasty and early Song dynasty banned killing in Lunar calendar 1st, 5th, and 9th month.

The Song government granted several shops the sole right to issue banknotes, and in the early 12th century the government finally took over these shops to produce state-issued currency.

The enormous encyclopedic work in China of the Four Great Books of Song, compiled by the 11th century AD during the early Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ), was a massive literary undertaking for the time.

Contemporaneously with Child came the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould, and later and more significantly Cecil Sharp who worked in the early 20th century to preserve a great body of English rural traditional song, music and dance, under the aegis of what became and remains the English Folk Dance and Song Society ( EFDSS ).

* Roland's sword in early 12th century French poem Song of Roland, was named Durendal.

Other early versions of mechanical devices used to perform one or another type of calculations include the planisphere and other mechanical computing devices invented by Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī ( c. AD 1000 ); the equatorium and universal latitude-independent astrolabe by Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī ( c. AD 1015 ); the astronomical analog computers of other medieval Muslim astronomers and engineers ; and the astronomical clock tower of Su Song ( c. AD 1090 ) during the Song Dynasty.

Image: Meister nach Chang Hsüan 001. jpg | Ladies making silk, a remake of an 8th-century original by Zhang Xuan by Emperor Huizong of Song, early 12th century, Chinese

Bart D. Ehrman referred to a work by an early anonymous Christian writer ( perhaps Hippolytus, a Christian leader in Rome around 200 AD ) who in a commentary on the Old Testament book Song of Songs, wrote that Jesus first appeared to the women at the tomb.

From the middle and late Eastern Han to the early Wei and Jin dynasties, the net growth of ancient Chinese science and technology experienced a peak ( second only to that of the Northern Song dynasty )... Han studies of the Confucian classics, which for a long time had hindered the socialization of science, were declining.

Cannons were first used in Song Dynasty China during the early 13th century, but did not become significant weapons for another 150 years or so.

Twenty first century linguistic work, including re-examining the dating of early Hebrew poetry, according to evidence of dialectic variation, has been applied to the Song by a number of scholars from different traditions.

The title of the film and novel is based upon a passage from Biblical book of The Song of Solomon or Song of Songs, Chapter 7: 12: " Let us get up early to the vineyards.

* The Yuelu Academy is founded during the early Song Dynasty of China.

This depicts a drastic drop in population since the Song Dynasty, which counted 100 million people at its height in the early 12th century.

The Tang Code was largely retained by later codes such as the early Ming Dynasty ( 1368 – 1644 ) code of 1397, yet there were several revisions in later times, such as improved property rights for women during the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ).

Late in the century, Gustav Mahler wrote his early Das klagende Lied on his own words, between 1878 and 1880, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor created a successful trilogy of cantatas The Song of Hiawatha between 1898 and 1900.

Butterfly and Chinese wisteria flowers, by Xü Xi ( c. 886 – c. 975 ), painted around 970 during the early Song Dynasty.

An early reference to kissing is contained in the familiar second verse of the Old Testament book, Song of Solomon, an ancient Hebrew love poem:

The Song Dynasty managed to win several military victories over the Tanguts in the early 11th century, culminating in a campaign led by the polymath scientist, general, and statesman Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ).

The White Jasmine Branch, early 12th century painting ; small paintings in the style of round-albums that captured realistic scenes of nature were widely popular in the Southern Song period.

Although an early form of the local geographic gazetteer existed in China since the 1st century, the matured form known as " treatise on a place ", or fangzhi, replaced the old " map guide ", or tujing, during the Song Dynasty.

In China during the Tang Dynasty, cannibalism was supposedly resorted to by rebel forces early in the period ( who were said to raid neighboring areas for victims to eat ), as well as both soldiers and civilians besieged during the rebellion of An Lushan.

The written history of China can be found as early as the Shang Dynasty ( c. 1700 – 1046 BC ), although ancient historical texts such as the Records of the Grand Historian ( ca.

Taking advantage of civil war in the Jin Dynasty, the contemporary non-Han Chinese ( Wu Hu ) ethnic groups controlled much of the country in the early 4th century and provoked large-scale Han Chinese migrations to south of the Yangtze River.

Underlying the prosperity of the early Tang Dynasty was a strong centralized bureaucracy with efficient policies.

Despite the xenophobia and intellectual introspection characteristic of the increasingly popular new school of neo-Confucianism, China under the early Ming Dynasty was not isolated.

During the Warring States Period and the early Han Dynasty, China grew greatly and the need arose for a solid and centralized cadre of government officers able to read and write administrative papers.

This was partially a continuation of the condemnations of Confucianism by intellectuals and activists in the early 20th Century as a cause of the ethnocentric close-mindedness and refusal of the Qing Dynasty to modernize that led to the tragedies that befell China in the 19th Century.

Tibetans also had a tradition of cavalry warfare, in several military engagements early on with the Chinese Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 AD ), including Emperor Taizong's campaign against Tufan in 638.

The Chinese recognized early on during the Han Dynasty ( 202 BC-220 AD ) that they were at a disadvantage in lacking the number of horses the northern nomadic peoples mustered in their armies.

Proto-Chadic language is believed * to have originated in Asia before it entered Africa as early as 7 kya, probably before or after the First Egyptian Dynasty.

The position of the Copts began to improve early in the 19th century under the stability and tolerance of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty.

In the early Middle Ages, the conquest of Shewa by the Ifat Sultanate ignited a rivalry for supremacy with the Solomonic Dynasty.

The origins of embroidery are unknown, but early examples survive from ancient Egypt, Iron Age Northern Europe and Zhou Dynasty China.

Classical Chinese painting continued on into the early modern Qing Dynasty, with highly realistic portrait paintings like seen in the late Ming Dynasty of the early 17th century.

During the early 16th century, the Sayfawa Dynasty solidified its hold on the Bornu population after much rebellion.

Medical institutions, referred to as Houses of Life are known to have been established in ancient Egypt as early as the 1st Dynasty.

This text and its thirty-three manifestations of Guanyin, of which seven are female manifestations, is known to have been very popular in Chinese Buddhism as early as in the Sui Dynasty and Tang Dynasty.

This mid 14th century work compiled during the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty ( before 1375, when its co-editor Liu Ji died ) stated that mines were made of cast iron and were spherical in shape, filled with either ' magic gunpowder ', ' poison gunpowder ', or ' blinding and burning gunpowder ', any one of these compositions being suitable for use.

Aimoin ( c. 960-c. 1010 ), French chronicler, was born at Villefranche-de-Longchat about 960, and in early life entered the monastery of Fleury, where he became a monk and passed the greater part of his life.

Between c. 960 and the early 980s, Harald Bluetooth appears to have established a kingdom in the lands of the Danes which stretched from Jutland to Skåne.

* Wulfstan the Cantor ( c. 960 – early 11th century ), Anglo-Saxon monk

In the early part of the ninth century, it was a frequent residence of Egbert of Wessex, and, in 960, King Edgar assembled a national council there to plan a defence against the Danes in the north.

Shot for approximately £ 960, 000, it was eventually picked up by the Weinstein brothers and released theatrically in the United States through their early Millimeter Films division.

According to legend, Lin Moniang was born on March 23, 960 ( during the early Northern Song Dynasty ) as the seventh daughter of Lin Yuan ( 林愿 ) on Meizhou Island, Fujian.

It achieved its greatest importance under the Sui ( AD 581 – 618 ), Tang ( 618 – 907 ), and early Song ( 960 – 1127 ) dynasties, when it was the terminus of the New Bian Canal, which joined the Yellow River to the northwest.

The later Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 AD ) Chinese statesman Cao Cheng once wrote of early pontoon bridges in China ( spelling of Chinese in Wade-Giles format ):

The first 960 processors entered the final stages of design, known as taping-out, in October 1985 and were sent to manufacturing that month, with the first working chips arriving in late 1985 and early 1986.

Although Serbian rule would be briefly restored in the early 10th, Byzantine rule was restored after its fall in 960.

* Wulfstan the Cantor ( c. 960 – early 11th century ), monk and poet

During the early Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ), the scrolls became well suited to the art styles of the artists, consequently hanging scrolls were made in many different sizes and proportions.

Large quantities of Chinese ceramics were recovered on Bintan, some traced to the early Sung Dynasty ( 960 – 1127 ).

During the early Song dynasty ( Chinese: 宋, 960 – 1279 ), China again reunited the currency system displacing coinages from ten or so independent states.