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imperial china was not culturally and technologically advanced

Foreign trade was a Southern Song priority, and the government constructed merchant ships and improved harbor facilities. Quanzhou, Guangzhou, and Xiamen were big seaports, and great wealth flowed through them.

in an absolute  monarchy, the  monarchrules as an autocrat, with absolutepower  over the state and government — for example, the right to rule by decree, promulgate laws, and impose punishments. the  monarch isnominally sovereign but the electorate, through their legislature, exercise political sovereignty.