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China
- Yellow River-Attitude
- Wheat culture
- Ramen-Chinese invented pasta
- Patriarchal
- Agriculture
- Weapons-iron
- Technology advanced
- Craftsman-Jade
- No Religion
- Interest in Spirits
- Writing...Pictographs
- Oracle Bones
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Legends
"Four August Ones" created China
Yellow Emperor: gave people medicine, wife invented silk
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Xia Dynasty
- Don't know much about
- Have Emperor
- There is a need to control Labor
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Shang Dynasty
- Bronze
- Getting surplus of Grain
- Army (14K people)
- Warriors are Nobles
- Made things out of Wood
- Forts, Trade, Fighting
- Bureauratic
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Zhou Dynasty
- Mandate of Heaven (cut off head of last emperor, now you have the power)
- Larger than Shang
- Most of Northern China, lots of land
- Many Alliances
- Emperor
- Iron (weapons)
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Western Zhou
- Hao-Turkic (not Chinese) invade and capture city
- Zhou moves east and makes new capital Luoyang
- Western Zhou becomes Eastern Zhou
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Warring States Period
- During Zhou Dynasty
- China breaks into various states and all start killing each other
- Time of Sages: philosophers, try to answer question of what we are doing wrong
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