Song China

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In northern china, men could prosper as merchants. dowries went up because women and their families were competing for these wardly mobile men. The other thing that started in northern china in the song period was foot binding. Men had a preference for female seclusion because of this idea of patralinny. They would know that their child was really they're rightcaus because you'd be incentiveeyd to clude your woman.

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