- Succeeded Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
- Based in East China
- Invention of gunpowder weapons
- Rivalry with Liao, Western Xia and Jin dynasties
- Northern Song period (960-1127)
- Song-Đại Việt War (1075-1077)
- Jin-Song wars (1125-1234)
- Southern Song period (1127-1279)
- Invaded by Mongol Empire (1235-1279)
- Battle of Xiangyang (1268-1273)
- Conquered by Yuan dynasty and Mongol Empire
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