Between%20the%20Huang%20He%20and%20Yangtze%20Rivers

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Ancient China

• Between the Huang He and Yangtze Rivers

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Specialized Workers

• Nobles- land owners
• Civil Servants- government administrative workers
• Professional warriors
• Artisans
• Wall builders
• Peasants- farmer

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Complex Institutions

• Duties to their family and to their emperor
• Religion
• Main god Shang Di
• Spirits of ancestors have power to bring good
  fortune or disaster
• Feudalism- use of land that legally belonged to
  emperor in exchange for military protection

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Advanced Cities

• Anyang- capital of the Shang Dynasty, built out
  of wood
• Hao- Zhou capital

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Advanced Technology

• Had Bronze, but thought it was too precious for
  tools
• Wooden digging sticks, hoes, sickles made of
  stone
• Chariot
• Silk
• Roads
• Canals
• Coined money
• Iron/cast iron
• Dagger, axes, swords
• Crossbow

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Record Keeping

• Oracle Bones
• write a questions to the gods on a bone, apply a
  hot poker to it, which causes it to crack, priest
  interpreted the cracks to see how the gods had
  answered
• Calligraphy
• Written language based on ideas not sounds
• One could read Chinese without being able to
  speak a word of it

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