Political Pembahagian: Liao, Song, Western Xia, Jin, Mongol

The main plan: Song Dynasty

In the year 960, the Song Dynasty ((960-1279) rise to power in most of China with a share capital of Kaifeng, and commence a period of economic prosperity, when the Khitan Liao Dynasty ruled Manchuria and eastern Mongolia.



In 1115, the Jin Dynasty (1115 -1234) Jurchen up and destroy the Liao Dynasty in the period of ten years, and nearly took over northern China and Kaifeng than the moving of the Song Dynasty capital to Hangzhou. Southern Song Dynasty also suffered humiliation when forced to admit as a lord of the Jin Dynasty rasminya. In the years that followed, China dibahagikan between the Song Dynasty, Jin Dynasty, and the Tangut Western Xia. Southern Song experienced a period of technological developments that could ketara described sebahagiannya by ketenteraan the dirasainya pressure from the north.