China's Classical Age pg. 53-64

The Shang Dynasty

Not as densely urban as Mesopatamia

Bronze Age civilization. Anyang was one of the large settelements

Bronzeworkers, potters, stone carvers, and other artisans were some types of workers.

New weapons

Aristocracy with sharp distcintionsundefined

Bronze and wrting helped develop China.

Neolithic Age

10,000 B.C.E. agriculture came into practice in China.

Main crops were drought-rseistant.

Different types of pottery in different areas.

Many Neolithic cultures had shared same practices.

Zhou Politics

Book of Documetns describes the Zhou's conquering of Shang

Saw Shang as a legitimate power

Sacrificed like the Shang to their ancestors.

Mandate Heaven was possibly propaganda to convert the conquered Shangs.

When the king was killed, the revived Zhou dynasty never fully regained its power.

Zhou Society

Highly aristocratic and a hierarchy

Book of Songs describes what life was like in different social levels

Woman were distrusted because of concubinage.

In north China cities began appearing

Large infantry armies became the military

Competent army

Brought new land to increase agricultural output

By the third century B.C.E. only 7 states remained