In the famous long scroll Along the River During the Qingming Festival painted by Zhang Zeduan ( 1085 – 1145 AD ) during the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1297 AD ), a suanpan is clearly seen lying beside an account book and doctor's prescriptions on the counter of an apothecary's ( Feibao ).

During the Song Dynasty, the scholar Zhu Xi ( AD 1130 – 1200 ) added ideas from Daoism and Buddhism into Confucianism.

During the Chinese Song Dynasty ( 960-1279 AD ), not only landscape art was improved upon, but portrait painting became more standardized and sophisticated than before ( for example, refer to Emperor Huizong of Song ), and reached its classical age maturity during the Ming Dynasty ( 1368-1644 AD ).

Court painters made new versions of the Song Dynasty masterpiece, Zhang Zeduan's Along the River During the Qingming Festival whose depiction of a prosperous and happy realm demonstrated the beneficence of the emperor.

During the Song Dynasty ( AD 960 – 1279 ) Shanghai was upgraded in status from a village to a market town in 1074, and in 1172 a second sea wall was built to stabilize the ocean coastline, supplementing an earlier dyke.

During the Song Dynasty, Neo-Confucians regarded Dao as the purest thing-in-itself.

During the Song Dynasty, similar stories circulated as the contents of prompt-books for storytellers.

During the Song Dynasty, there was large scale maritime trade from China reaching as far as the Arabian peninsula and East Africa.

During the Song and earlier periods, barge ships occasionally crashed and wrecked along the Shanyang Yundao section of the Grand Canal while passing the double slipways, and more often than not those were then robbed of the tax grain by local bandits.

During the Song Dynasty in the late 1st millennium AD, these six works were combined with a Tang Dynasty text into a collection called the Seven Military Classics.

During the Northern Song (, 960 – 1127 ), the Song capital was in the northern city of Bianjing ( now Kaifeng ) and the dynasty controlled most of inner China.

During this time, the Song court retreated south of the Yangtze River and established their capital at Lin ' an ( now Hangzhou ).

During these battles the Song navy employed swift paddle wheel driven naval vessels armed with trebuchet catapults aboard the decks that launched gunpowder bombs.

Junk ( ship ) | Chinese boats from Zhang Zeduan's ( 1085 – 1145 ) painting Along the River During Qingming Festival ; Chinese ships of the Song period featured Hull ( watercraft ) | hulls with Bulkhead ( partition ) | watertight compartments.

During the Song Dynasty, the Emperor's power was significantly overshadowed by the power of the chancellor.

During the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ), many of the common people could purchase various kinds of fireworks from market vendors, and grand displays of fireworks were also known to be held.

During the Song dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ), landscapes of more subtle expression appeared ; immeasurable distances were conveyed through the use of blurred outlines, mountain contours disappearing into the mist, and impressionistic treatment of natural phenomena.

During the Northern Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1127 ), the sixteen ceded prefectures continued to be an area of hot contention between Song China and the Liao Dynasty.

During the Lý Dynasty, the Chinese Song Dynasty officially recognized the Đại Việt monarch as King of Giao Chỉ ( Giao Chỉ Quận Vương ).

During the Northern Song Dynasty ( 960-1127 ), the sixteen ceded prefectures continued to be an area of contention between Song China and the Liao Dynasty.

During the next two years an author, Miller from the town where Larry first performed this, wrote a book called " The Singer " and another book called " The Song.

During the Sung period ( 960 – 1279 AD ), the establishment of China's first official standing navy in 1132 AD and the enormous increase in maritime trade abroad ( from Heian Japan to Fatimid Egypt ) allowed the shipbuilding industry in provinces like Fujian to thrive as never before.

During the process, its construction destroyed the historic wall of the Kowloon Walled City, as well as the 45 m ( 148 ft ) tall Sung Wong Toi — a memorial for the last Song dynasty emperor, for materials.

During the Kamakura and Muromachi periods, the local Matsuura clan held the rights to trade with Korea and with Sung Dynasty China.

During this period, the Guardian received direct annual financial support from the UN mission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and ran an annual article with complimentary coverage of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung.

During the Northern Sung dynasty in China, a historical astronomical record was written, which lists unusual phenomena observed in the night sky.

During the Han dynasty, another Yin-Yang conception was applied to the Lo Shu, considering the latter as a plan of Ancient China.

During the Ming dynasty the last construction on the Great Wall was undertaken to protect China from foreign invasions.

During the Han dynasty period, the important Confucian text Lessons for Women ( Nüjie ), was written by Ban Zhao ( 45-114 CE ): by a woman, for women.

During the Yuan dynasty, Halal methods of slaughtering animals and preparing food was banned and forbidden by the Mongol Emperors, starting with Genghis Khan who banned Muslims and Jews from slaughtering their animals their own way, and making them follow the Mongol method.

During the Joseon dynasty, they were specific professions like basket weaving and performing executions.

During the Piast dynasty Christianity was adopted in 966 and medieval monarchy established.

During the Piast dynasty rule ( 10th – 14th century ), Poland was formed and established as a state and a nation.

During the Mughal era, the dominant political forces consisted of the Mughal Empire and its tributaries and, later on, the rising successor states-including the Maratha Empire-which fought an increasingly weak Mughal dynasty.

During the Han dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing, who was mayor of Changsha near the end of the 2nd century AD, wrote a Treatise on Cold Damage, which contains the earliest known reference to the Neijing Suwen.

During Egypt's first dynasty ( c. 3000 BC ), sailors were sent out onto its waters, journeying to Punt, thought to be part of present-day Somalia.

During John's reign, England lost the duchy of Normandy to King Philip II of France, which resulted in the collapse of most of the Angevin Empire and contributed to the subsequent growth in power of the Capetian dynasty during the 13th century.

During his campaigns in the early 12th century, Bolesław III Wrymouth reacquired Pomerania for Poland, and made the local " Griffin " dynasty his vassals.

During the Herodian dynasty rule, the area has become part of Judaea.

During the reign of Almoravids, the position of the Jews was apparently free of significant abuses, but after another Berber dynasty, Almohads, conquered Córdoba in 1148 they have abolished the dhimma status ( i. e. state protection of life and wealth ) in some of their territories which threatened the Jewish and Christian communities with the choice of conversion to Islam, death, or exile.

During the eulogy he also read Caesar's will, which left most of his property to the people of Rome: whatever Caesar's real intentions had been, Antony presumably meant to demonstrate that contrary to the conspirators ' assertions, Caesar had no intention of forming a royal dynasty.

During the final century of the Merovingian rule, the dynasty was increasingly pushed into a ceremonial role.

During this period, the Minneapolis Lakers, led by center George Mikan, won five NBA Championships and established themselves as the league's first dynasty.

During their dynasty years in the 1970s, the A's had dozens of uniform combinations with jerseys and pants in all three team colors, and in fact did not wear the traditional gray on the road, instead wearing green or gold, which helped to contribute to their nickname of " The Swingin ' A's.

During the Zemene Mesafint or " Age of Princes " of Ethiopia, Emperors became figureheads, controlled by warlords like Ras Mikael Sehul of Tigray, and by the Oromo Yejju dynasty, which later led to 17th century Oromo rule of Gondar, changing the language of the court from Amharic to Afaan Oromo.

During the eighteenth dynasty ( sixteenth to fourteenth centuries BC ) the title pharaoh was employed as a reverential designation of the ruler.

During the Tang dynasty, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang promoted large-scale tug of war games, using ropes of up to 167 meters with shorter ropes attached and more than 500 people on each end of the rope.

During the Konbaung dynasty, solid gold images of deceased kings and their consorts were worshiped three times a year by the royal family, during the Burmese New Year ( Thingyan ), at the beginning and at the end of the Buddhist lent.

During the 11th century, the Sanhaja tribal confederation allied with the Lamtuna tribe to found the Almoravid dynasty.

During the Han dynasty, cotton was grown by non Chinese peoples in the southern Chinese province of Yunnan.

During the Qing dynasty, criminal justice was based on extremely detailed Great Qing Legal Code.