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The Song dynasty which is divided between the Northern Song and the later Southern Song when land north of the Yangtze River was lost to the Jin Dynasty. The Song Dynasty witnessed important historical developments such as the first use of gunpowder, paper currency, and the identification of true north. This was also a period that saw creative production at the highest level including monumental landscape painting. The Song dynasty existed from 960 until 1279.

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