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-invented wooden agricultural implements
-taught the world his inventions
-instituted the market
-during his age everyone acted with content
-taught people to cultivate
-tasted 100 varieties of grasses |
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1.Yang Shao
2.Ta-Pen-K'eng |
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| 2 early farming groups in China |
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| Yang Shao characteristics |
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| fox-tail millet (a grain), red painted pottery w/ black designs, stone disks with holes, weights for digging sticks, |
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| Yang Shao domesticated animals |
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| dogs, pigs, cattle, sheep, goats |
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| How Yang Shao got their food |
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| hunting, collecting of wild grains, hunting and fishing supplemented their diet. |
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| Ta-Pen-K'eng characteristics |
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| cord-marked pottery(thick gritty colors from tan to brown, large and small sizes), variety of stone tools, no specific ag tools, southeast coast. |
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| Both Ta-Pen-K'eng and Yang Shao |
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resources for longer pds of time, earliest farming was probably taking care of plants, houses in rows-plastered or stone foundations/houses can be square or oblong, 3-5m across
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| Important: first indication of writing. unsure if representation of owner or potter |
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| new culture across china that looks the same |
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| more war-like and ranked society, more toward civilization and the state |
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| ***First 3 historical dynasties*** |
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| Lungshanoid characteristics |
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| black pottery, transition from peacful egalitarian society to state, ranked society |
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| construction technique for village walls, using rammed earth construction. posts with lumber between the posts, posts with doughnut-like stones sticking out rammed into ground. then posts and lumber are removed. |
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| village walls, then perhaps defensive then maybe protection against invaders. |
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| using scapula of oxen or turtle shell for divining certain requests. Ruler may ask advisers "should we go to war?". place a hot piece of metal on the bone. if/how it cracks is the answer. |
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| primary domestic animals were pigs and dogs |
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| primary domestic animals pigs, dogs, and cattle |
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| nuclear area for that population (specific area?) |
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| far reaching expansions into many regions of china |
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| oracle bones present-primarily used scapula for divination |
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| no defensive works, few artifacts exclusively for fighting |
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| hang-t'u village walls, weapons, defensive action |
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| burial practices show some differentiation for age or sex |
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| age, sex, and possibly class or group differentiation in burials |
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| community practices show no significant social stratification |
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| jade artifacts and more intensive social stratification(some houses larger, better construction |
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| First cities from villages |
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4-6000 yrs ago in china
2-3000 yrs ago in New World |
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| 4 basic changes from neolithic to urban centers |
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1. agricultural innovation
2. diversification of labor
3. emergence of central government
4. social stratification? warfare? who knows... |
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| verifiable civilization in china. first literate people in asia |
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| archivists recorded important info for the state on slivers of bamboo wrapped together |
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| extended power to throne in 2697. greatest war hero, transitioned from contained group to war-crazy gov't, responsible for rise of city and state. |
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| Three groups of people in shang |
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1. Aristocracy
2. craft producers
3. farmers |
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| T'ang, who overthrew Hsia dynasty . established the capital Po. |
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| Po, near modern-day Yen-Shih |
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| Aristocracy characteristics |
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| ceremonial alters, ceremonial stamped-earth floors, complex graves, associated with human sacrifice and animal sacrifice |
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| last capital of Shang dynasty. there was a pit that was 10ft deep. long ramps, within central pit is a wooden chamber. where chief or main coffin is placed. many grave pits beside the central chamber. |
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| stones, jades, artifacts of amber and bone, bronze and pottery artifacts. best examples of shang art found in these tombs. |
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1. rammed earth construction importance
2. shang burial institution
3. organization of human power, ability to get humans to work together, sacrificial burials
4. high level of achievement in their culture
5. discovery of stone sculpture and decorative art
6. representative products of the bronze industry
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| craft producer characteristics |
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| associated with both farmers and aristocracy, in some cases tied closer to one or the other. probably higher status than the farmers, partly b/c of skill and knowledge. some bronze-smiths had stamped earth floors |
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| shang subsistance based on farming, supplemented w/ hunting and fishing. produced rice, wheat. spades, sickles, large wooden dogging stick used. maybe pulled by man, cow, etc. Not known if only slaves were farming |
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| war captives, likely ceremonial sacrifices, buried alive sometimes |
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| greater similarity of cultures, greater acceleration of growth. replaced shang probably due to internal truggle more than outside conquest. |
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| horse as a mount animal, bronze swords widely used, burial mounds more fashionable, communication w/ distant groups, crossbow introduction |
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