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A 4-page paper detailing the reasons for the fall of the Southern Song empire in China to the Mongols in 1276. Included are the rise of paper money, rifts in the bureaucracy and the character of the Mongols themselves. References list 2 sources.
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File: D0_khsong.rtf
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of the marauding Mongols to their own complacency, frivolity and general lack of preparedness for the cruel realities of the war that was to come upon them. The Song were
too mired in sentimental tales of the past glory of the lost Northern provinces, the reasoning goes, and possessed of a single-minded determination to resurrect those imagined heights of art,
music, wealth and culture to take sufficient precautions and to handle the harsh realities of life in the 13th century South. They had become fat, lazy and obsessed with their
own pleasure and entertainment, and thus were easy prey for the lean and hungry barbarians who swept down off the steppes and consumed all that they treasured in a conflagration
that would enlarge to engulf most of Asia and large portions of Europe and the Middle East as well. It is an enticing scenario and one to which the unknown
author of the poem written on the wall of the inn in Hangzhou clearly subscribed. But does it tell the whole truth? The poem, written on the inn wall in
Hangzhou, says it all: Hill beyond green hill, pavilion behind pavilion-at the West Lake, will the singing and dancing never cease? Its the warm wind that lulls them and beguiles
them into thinking That this place is the other one we knew in times of peace. There is, at first blush, some validity to the assertion. As the texts make
clear, the Southern Song, after the loss of their beloved Northern provinces to the Jurchen in 1127, waxed eloquent in their praise of its remembered glory. The account of Li
Qingzhao and the overtly sentimental remembrances of Meng Yuanlao in A Record of the Dream of the Eastern Capitals Splendor make it clear that the North and the old capital
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