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show Xia Dynasty  
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(Huang He River). 2,920 miles long, periodically floods and devastates fields, communities, etc. Altered its course many times and caused so much destruction that is was nicknamed "China's Sorrow."   show
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show Yangshao Society and Banpo Village  
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Technology helps explain the rise and success of the Shang dynasty. Bronze metallurgy went to China from southwest Asia, with horse-drawn chariots, horses and other wheeled vehicles. They reached China by 1200 BCE.   show
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show Shang Political Organization  
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Most remarkable feature of this site is the city wall, 33 feet high, 66 feet thick. Even today, parts of the wall of Ao still survive at a height of 10-13 feet. The wall required 10,000 workers working 20 years.   show
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show The Shang Capital at Yin  
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Legendary and historical accounts paid special attention to the Xia and Shang dynasties because of their location in the Yellow River Valley, where the first Chinese imperial states rose in later times.   show
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show The Rise of the Zhou  
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The Zhou dynasty wrote a set of principles that influenced Chinese thinking about government. Zhou theory of politics based on the assumption that earthly events were closely related to heavenly affairs.   show
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Zhou state was larger than the Shang, so large that a single court couldn't rule the entire land effectively. As a result, Zhou rulers relied on a decentralized administration: they entrusted power, authority, and responsibility to subordinates   show
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Zhou kings couldn't maintain control over the decentralized political system. Subordinates eventually established their own bases of power: they ruled their territories not only as allies of the Zhou kings.   show
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show Iron Metallurgy  
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During the Xia, Shang and early Zhou dynasties, royal family and allied noble families occupied most honored positions in Chinese society. They lived in large compounds, lived on the agricultural surplus and taxes delivered by their subjects.   show
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show Specialized Labor  
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show Merchants and Trade  
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show Peasants  
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show Slaves  
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show Veneration of Ancestors  
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show Patriarchal Society  
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Oracle bones were main instruments used by Chinese fortune tellers. Diviners used special broad bones(shoulder blades of sheep or turtle shells), they inscribed a question on the bone and then heated it by placing it in the fire   show
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Several writings of the Zhou dynasty won recognition as works of high authority, and they exercised deep influence because they served as textbooks in Chinese schools.   show
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show The Book of Songs  
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show Destruction of Early Chinese Literature  
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Chinese cultivators met nomadic people who built pastoral societies in the grassy steppe lands of central Asia.   show
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show Nomadic Society  
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show The Yangzi Valley  
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show The State of Chu  
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show Yangshao society  
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show Xia dynasty  
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1766-1122 B.C.E   show
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1122-256 B.C.E   show
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403-221 B.C.E   show
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show a line of hereditary rulers of a country.  
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show around the north china plain  
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show Agriculture  
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show Small groups controlled a small territory, and some of these groups expanded their control over other territories to create dynasty control.  
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show The area in where they started their civilization had typical rainfall, which allowed for early cultivators to avoid creating a complex irrigation system  
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show They look for the first born legitimate son of the current ruler.  
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What does legitimate mean?   show
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show Attracts attention, stands out from the rest  
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show an ancient Chinese belief that says that heaven is the deciding power that gives rule to an emperor as long as they can rule well and fairly  
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Yao   show
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Shun   show
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show legendary ruler, 200-2100 B.C.E. -famous for control on floods  
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show manual intructing diviners in art of foretelling future  
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show collection of documents,justified Zhou state, called for subjects to obey their overlords  
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xia   show
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show dynasty 1766-1122 B.C.E.bronze work  
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show dynasty 1122-221 B.C.E. great intellectual achievements  
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show feudal state of Zhou period  
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show sailors  
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scribes   show
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