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Farmers Have small farms Give too much land to son Sell land to aristocrats Become tenant farmers Aristocrats create armies to get more farmland Country grows in size

New Technology More grain More salt Steel Paper

Medicine Improves –herbs to cure illness Acupuncture Invent rudder Trade all the way to Mediterranean

Silk Road Ship expensive goods to other countries Valuable trade product Large network of trade routes stretched 4,000 miles High taxes to many kingdoms, only take valuable items Dangerous

Changes in China Buddhism grows China becomes more dangerous Civil War Invaders from north Buddhist ideas attract many Chinese to religion