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Neolithic beginnings- (Longshan) built walled settlements larger than villages, bronze tools, weapons, and ornamentsm used pictnographic and ideographic script- not phonic, it represents what you are saying. Logographic for- doesn't ean anything, just told what it means and accepted nu society. Longshan and Yongshao skeletal evidence in pots that remained in soil about it.
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Ancient China ( 2000 BCE)
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"yellow emperor" -the giver of civilization: had sil, cramics, how and arrow, carts.chariots, written texts
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Xia Dynasty (2000-1600)
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believed it was bigger than Xia dynasty and from brother to brother royalty.
FOOD: rice with millet in Yanzi Valley along with domesticated with cattle, pis, and poultry and hunted SLAVES: or ars, built cities, and alaces- built monumental buildings and royal tombs TOMBS: decorated chariots with killed horses to be in burials along with royals or aristocrats (dead) and alot of followers as human sacrifices in the afterlife and dead man;s satus. TECH: Bronze vessels/weapons INSCRIPTION: shoulder bonesor touqouis shells- orm of a ? on it and cracked by fire supposedly answered ; also oracle bone inscription w. list of Shang kings a brief royal activities HUNT: many animals perished DEITY: ancestoral worships- slaves not have ancestors or worhip them LIVING: royal- luxury houses.; common people- simple pit dwelling CLIMATE: semirad and prone to drpughts and floods; N. China- not much evidence of irrigation;high loess soil. DECLINE/FALL: wealth increased- many envied tem b/c they sacriiced alot of the ZHOU |
Shang Dynasty (1600-1050 BCE) NEAR Luoyang, then Zhenghou and finally @ Anyang by Yellow River
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