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__** Government **__

 * King Shang
 * Nobles were considered warriors
 * Dynasty Zhou controled north to Chang Ji in the south
 * They had military and different kinds of groups
 * Kings were not considered gods nor ancestors
 * They made cities and towns as they got stronger over the years
 * They didnt really depend on their king, they made their own decisions

**__ Technology __**

 * Coin Money was introduced
 * Zhou Dynasty produced many innovacations
 * Blast furances were produced, cast iron was devolped by this
 * They use it to create weapons
 * Especially digger and axes
 * Also had knives, sickles, and spades
 * It made farm work easier and more productive

**__ Social Class __**

 * Sharply divided between nobles and peasants
 * Ruling class warrior-nobles headed by King Govern Shang
 * They owned most of the land
 * They brib the king by sending them goods and other valuable things so that the king would give them more controlt through out the land
 * Also, if the king gave them land they had to honor him by fighting in his words

**__ Culture __**

 * The delvopment of farming started around 2000 B.C.
 * These settlements grew to China's first cities
 * The first Chinese dynasty was Xia (shyah)
 * Its leader was an engineer and mathematican named Yu
 * He tamed the Huang He river by making projects for flooding and irrigration so that settlements could grwo
 * Yu reflects the level of technology of a society makign the transition to civilzation
 * People who lived outside were baribars
 * Family was very important
 * Old men owned the property and mostly treated their wives like salves
 * Marrige for a girl was ages 13-16
 * Son's would improve there family ranking status, the more sons you had the more your family got respect.

**__ Geography __**

 * The yellow sea, east china sea, and pacific ocean are the natural barriers
 * Mountains and Desserts dominate two-thirds of China
 * Two major rivers flow from the mountains weat to the pacific ocean
 * Natural barriers isolate China from other civilzations
 * The "Huang He" means yellow river which is found in the north
 * It deposits huge amounts of yellowish slit when it overflows the bank



**__ Enviromental Challenges __**
__**Agriculture**__ **__Time Period__** __**Writing**__
 * Floods fromt he Hunag He river destroys villages, earning another nickname called, "China's Sorrow"
 * Had to supply all their own goods since they were isolated from other settlers
 * Natural barriers weren't always effected, they got invasions from weat and north, again and again throughout history.
 * Only 10% was sutiable for farming land
 * It was in the center of the civilzation
 * Known as the China's north plain
 * Poticial boundries have expanded and contracted over the years
 * Roads and Canals were bulit to make trading easier.
 * 2000 B.C.
 * Zhou ruled from 1027-256 B.C.
 * In 771 B.C. Zhou weakened and was killed along with other royal memebers
 * Each Character stands for one syllable or unit of language
 * Writing the language and speaking it was two total different concepts
 * It made control, planning and record making easy because they all wrote the same and could understand that ( advantage)
 * Had to memorize an enourmous amount of characters, to be a true scholar of it you had to know over 10,000, to understandn writing on paper you had to know at least 1000. (disadvantage)



__**Religion**__
 * Family was closely link to religion
 * Believed spirits from ancestors brought good fortune or diaster
 * Made scarfices in their honor but did not see them as gods
 * Shang(king) worshipped one big god called Shang Di
 * They consulted with gods by the use of oracle bones; animal and tortise bones and shells were slashed by a hot untesil which the craving from the slashing would show the reslut to him/her question
 * They had a heavan
 * Floods were considered as the ancestors being displeased
 * If ancestors were displeased they would move onto a different noble family