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ANCIENT CHINA Between the Huang He and Yangtze Rivers Specialized Workers • Nobles- land owners • Civil Servants- government administrative workers • Professional warriors • Artisans • Wall builders • Peasants- farmer Complex Institutions • Duties to their family and to their emperor • Religion: • Main god: Shang Di • Spirits of ancestors have power to bring good fortune or disaster • Feudalism- use of land that legally belonged to emperor in exchange for military protection Advanced Cities • Anyang- capital of the Shang Dynasty, built out of wood • Hao- Zhou capital Advanced Technology • Had Bronze, but thought it was too precious for tools • Wooden digging sticks, hoes, sickles made of stone • Chariot • Silk • Roads • Canals • Coined money • Iron/cast iron • Dagger, axes, swords • Crossbow Record Keeping • Oracle Bones • write a questions to the gods on a bone, apply a hot poker to it, which causes it to crack, priest interpreted the cracks to see how the gods had answered • Calligraphy • Written language based on ideas not sounds • One could read Chinese without being able to speak a word of it
