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The Song Golden Age refers to the Northern Song period, when technology, science, philosophy, mathematics and engineering flourished, the government issued the world's first paper money and established China's first permanent standing navy, and the economy grew to a scale unmatched anywhere else in the contemporary world. The era ended in 1127 when the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty captured the capital Kaifeng and the imperial court in the Jingkang Incident, forcing the Song court to retreat south and found the Southern Song.
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End Year1127 marks the Jingkang Incident and the fall of northern China to the Jin dynasty, the conventional end of the Northern Song; economic and cultural achievement continued in reduced form under the Southern Song. Geographic ScopeNorthern Song China, centered on the capital Bianjing (Kaifeng). 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Wikipedia: Song Dynasty
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Technology, science, philosophy, mathematics, and engineering flourished during the Song era. The Song dynasty was the first in world history to issue banknotes or true paper money and the first Chinese government to establish a permanent standing navy.
1. Wikipedia: Song Dynasty
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The Song dynasty...was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 960 to 1279.
1. Wikipedia: Song Dynasty
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In the Jingkang Incident during the latter invasion, the Jurchens captured not only the capital, but the retired Emperor Huizong, his successor Emperor Qinzong, and most of the Imperial court.
1. Wikipedia: Song Dynasty
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during the Northern Song (960-1127), the capital was in the northern city of Bianjing (now Kaifeng) and the dynasty controlled most of what is now East China.
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