What policies were adopted by states in China and Southeast Asia that affected the productivity of their people?

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What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

A. Policies of China
1. emperors contributed to the enduring infrastructure of the economy
a. building a canal system that crisscrossed the country
1. stimulated internal grain trade
2. increased productivity of the regions that grew rice and millet
3. canals also improved irrigation
2. Tang dynasty policies broke up landholdings and distributed them among taxpayers
a. major land reform of 737 divided great estates among their workers
b. encouraged cultivation because peasants farmed their holdings more intensively than large landowners did
3. established price-regulating granaries
a. food stocks accumulated at government expense when prices were low for redistribution at a discount when prices were high
4. Tang armies brought back improved rice strains from campaigns in Vietnam
5. Imperial policy stimulated the southward shift of settlement
B. Policies of Southeast Asia
1. boosted their revenues, reach, and power by granting wasteland to priests, monks, and warriors to farm
a. land grants recorded in conquered forest areas in the sixth century, monks and holy men were the biggest beneficiaries
b. settlers were provided to help work the land
2. increasing evidence of irrigation and double cropping
a. landlord was only entitled to a third of water from a single well in land grants
b. settlers needed the rest to sustain expanded activity of their own