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Chapter 5
Ancient China
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Yao | One of the 3 rulers virtues that followed legendary culture heroes, married two of his daughters |
| Shun | One of the 3 rulers virtues that followed legendary culture heroes, he was a virtuous and benevolent ruler. |
| Yu | One of the 3 rulers virtues that followed legendary culture heroes,he was a humane and wise ruler |
| Xia | The first Chinese dynasty |
| Shang | The second Chinese dynasty |
| Chu | Hegemonic, Zhou dynasty era state |
| "Mandate of Heaven" | A concept that helped support the rulers from the Zhou dynasty |
| Legitimacy | A popular acceptance of an authority usually a governing law |
| Conspicuous | The spending of money on and the buying goods and services to publicly display economic power |
| Mariners | A sailor |
| Scribes | People who write |
| Secular | Activities that have no religious or spiritual basis. |
| Yangzi River | The longest river in Asia |
| Yellow River | The third-longest river in Asia that follows the Yangzi River |
| Zhou | A period of change in Ancient China |
| What society was in 5000–3000 B.C.E. | Yangshao society |
| When did the Xia dynasty occurred? | 2200–1766 B.C.E. |
| What society was in 1766–1122 B.C.E. | Shang dynasty |
| What dynasty in 1122–256 B.C.E. | Zhou dynasty |
| What period occurred in 403–221 B.C.E. | Period of the Warring States |
| Emperor Yao, Emperor Shun, and Emperor Yu were... | The 3 Great Kings that regined before the creation of the Xia Dynasty |
| Xia's Interactions with the Environment | Emperor Yu had made an effective flood control project that let the social order begin |
| Xia's religion | No evidence of their religion |
| Xia's economy | No evidence but it can be assumed that they used trade |
| Xia's Arts and Architecture | They had large, palace-type structures as well as modest houses, pottery workshops, and a bronze foundry. |
| Xia's technology | They organization of effective flood projects |
| Xia's society | They had one of the first efforts to organize public life in China |
| Shang's politics | They were control over bronze production that made Shang forces stronger |
| Shang's geography | Their area was in the middle course of the Yellow River |
| Shang's religion | Polytheistic |
| Shang's arts | They had bronze-smiths that would help them with their bronze metallurgy |
| Shang's technology | Bronze metallurgy made together with horses, horse-drawn chariots, carts, wagons, and other wheeled vehicles |
| Shang's economics | Shang ruling elites managed to monopolize the production of bronze they had |
| Shang's society | Their society revolved around several large citiesand moved 6 times in their whole dynasty |
| Zhou's politics | Zhou kin gs did not maintain all the power but the subordinates ruled their territories with limited supervision from the central government |
| Zhou's geography | In the western area |
| Zhou's religion | They belived in The Mandate of Heaven |
| Zhou's arts | Produced books of poetry and history, manuals of divination and ritual, and essays dealing with moral, religious, philosophical, and political themes |
| Zhou's technology | Zhou kings were not able to control the production of bronze as closely as their Shang predecessors had and had developed a stockpit of weapons |
| Zhou's economics | They had regional bureaucracies, armies, and tax systems, |
| Zhou's society | Used iron tools and weapons to establish thier kingdom |
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