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| Peasant Life | A large amount of peasants populated China. They didn’t own land but did agricultural, military and labor. They lived in small subterranean houses. The women’s role was to make wine, weave, and cultivation of silkworms. The men spent all of their time working outside in the fields. |
| Veneration of Ancestors | the practice with roots of Neolithic times. The people In China diligently tended the graves of their dead ancestors. They thought the sprits passed on to another from which they had to the power to support and protect their families. |
| Ruling Elites | possessed much of the bronze weapons. They supplied there houses with bronze utensils; pots, jars, cups, plates, dishes, mirrors, bells, drums. |
| Mandate of Heaven | powers granted right to govern the “mandate of heaven” to an especially to a deservingly person. The ruler would serve as a link between heaven and earth. He had the duty to govern conscientiously. |
| Yangshao Society | located near the Yelow River Valle and is know from the discover in 1952 of an entire Neolithic village at Banpo. There are a lot of painted pottery and bone tools used by early people in the sixth and fifth millennia BCE |
| Xia dynasty | first organized public life in china on a large scale. Established a precept for hereditary monarchial rule in china. Erlitou was the capital of the Xia Dynasty. |
| Shang Dynasty | It rose in a region of the south and east of the Xia Realm Shang moved 6 times.. They left written records and material remains. They didnt rule a normal civilized state. Bronze metallurgy changed Chinese society during Shang times. |
| Zhou Dynasty | They were in the Wei River valet in northwestern china. They allied with the shang and won recognition as kings of the eastern regions. They were tough people who fought shang forces in the east. They gradually eclipsed the shang dynasty and ultimately displaced it. |
