Farmers invented a new strain of rice, which could be cultivated twice a year. Song was most inventive of their time. First to use gunpowder defensively. Made gunpowder bombs and arrow propellers. Also, made a new boat called Chinese Junk, and a Magnetic Compass which was passed into the Indian Ocean and then into Europe, and Movable Type Printing is taken from Korea and improved.
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Song Technological Achievements
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