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Warm Up
 Where
did rulers in the ancient world
derive their power from?
 Review: What were the 2 forms of
Chinese religion in early China? Can you
draw any conclusions from those two
religious practices about the values in
ancient China?
Agenda
 Warm
Up- What we know about China
 Shang & Zhou Dynasty
 Social Contract vs. Mandate of Heaven &
Dynastic Cycle
 Primary Source: Advice on the Mandate
of Heaven
 By the end of the day you should be able
to describe why the Chinese have the
Mandate of Heaven and how it functions
Neolithic ca. 12,000 - 2000 B.C.
Xia ca. 2100-1800 B.C.
Shang 1700-1027 B.C.
Western Zhou 1027-771 B.C.
Ancient
China
Eastern Zhou
770-221 B.C.
Warring States period
475-221 B.C.
PP Design of T. Loessin; Akins H.S.
2. What were three features of Shang culture?
• First written records
- calligraphy writing and paper making
• Sharp class division peasants
• Wood used as building material
(not mud-dried bricks as in other regions)
• Peasants used wooden tools
• Shang made magnificent bronze weapons
and ceremonial vessels
Pics: Bronze work of
the Shang period
(1700-1027 B.C.).
A toilet, an ax, and a
cooking cauldron.
PP Design of T. Loessin; Akins H.S.
4. Name two important changes brought about by
the Zhou.
While the Zhou did simply adopt much of old Shang culture,
they also did introduce new things:
Above: Jade disk,
China’s Zhou period.
Below: Bronze helmet and sword,
Zhou period.
PP Design of T. Loessin; Akins H.S.
• A new idea of royalty that claimed rulers got their
authority from heaven. This was known as the
Mandate from Heaven.
Chinese would believe in divine rule.
This led to a pattern of rise and fall of dynasties in
China known as the dynastic cycle.
• The Zhou introduced feudalism.
• Zhou introduced the first coined money,
•roads and canals
•Iron tools instead of bronze
• with trained workers called
civil servants;.
Question
 Remember
you Government class:
 Think of 3-5 things that a good
government should provide.
Social Contract Theory??
 John
Locke
Mandate of Heaven
 Heaven
world


= force that keeps balance in the
It is not a place you go to after you die
Similar to the “force” or “Dao”
A
ruler has the right to rule so long as
heaven is kept happy!

Heaven is happy if the people are cared
for.
 What
ruler?
are some of the responsibilities of the
Primary Source: Mandate of
Heaven in action
 Read
the document and answer
questions at the end with a partner
 What you don’t finish is homework