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Chapter 5
Asia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Book of Changes | manual for fortune tellers |
| Book of History | documents that justified the Zhou dynasty and told their subjects to obey the lords |
| Book of Etiquette (Book of Rites) | taught the Zhou aristocrats the etiquette and proper way to perform rituals |
| Book of Songs (Book of Poetry or Book of Odes) | a collection of verses both light and dark |
| "China's Sorrow" | nickname given to the Yellow river |
| cowry shells | currency for Xia dynasty |
| dynasty | patriarchal government system |
| "mandate of Heaven" | political theology in which "the right to govern came from the heaven and was given to a son of heaven" (Zhou) |
| oracle bones | wrote questions to ask fortune tellers, fortune tellers would use the cracks on the bone to answer the questions |
| royal court | one ruler that gave assistants power to help govern |
| Shang | dynasty that rose from the fall of Xia |
| steppe nomads | nomadic people that where a link between the eastern and western societies |
| Xia | one of the first dynasties in China |
| Zhou | dynasty that took over Shang |
| Political: Xia | hereditary rule in China king lost rule to Shang |
| Interactions with Environment: Xia | believed they ruled the Yellow River |
| Religion: Xia | no evidence |
| Art&Architecture: Xia | pottery workshops |
| Technology: Xia | flood control systems -modest houses-metallurgy -bronze foundry (tools and weapons)- sails |
| Economy: Xia | |
| Society: Xia | |
| Political: Shang | patriarchal-dynasties-hereditary-strong military |
| Interactions with Environment: Shang | Yellow River |
| Religion: Shang | afterlife tombs sacrifices |
| Art&Architecture: Shang | figurines walls |
| Technology: Shang | written language wheels axels spokes chariots metallurgy |
| Economy: Shang | cowry shells = currency |
| Social: Shang | |
| Political: Zhou | the political leader was the "son of the gods"- Mandate of Heaven" royal court |
| Interactions with Environment: Zhou | Wei river valley flood control |
| Religion: Zhou | gods where their ancestors "Mandate of Heaven" |
| Art&Architecture: Zhou | flood control-literature-city walls |
| Technology: Zhou | metallurgy-flood control systems-swords-pictograph writting |
| Economy: Zhou | taxes |
| Social: Zhou | valued family |
| Chronology: 5000-3000 B.C.E | Yangshao society |
| Chronology: 2200-1766 B.C.E | Xia dynasty |
| Chronology: 1766-1122 B.C.E | Shang dynasty |
| Chronology: 1122-256 B.C.E | Zhou dynasty |
| Chronology: 403- 221 B.C.E | Period of the Warring States |
| Yangshao society | neolithic societies in early china |
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