ACS 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Taoism, Confucianism
17 Mar 2018
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Chinese society, its governmental system, its material culture, its architectural forms, and its written language all emerged in the bronze age. Rice farming was able to sustain very large populations per square kilometre in. The high labor requirements of rice production all but depended on a dense settlement pattern: the early farmers of china grew accustomed to a collective lifestyle in which group identity dominated individual autonomy. Bronze age chinese settlements were organized according to urban clusters, elite enclosures (forti ed precincts) surrounded by a scattering of workshops and artisan- supported farm villages. The shang kings of china (1523-1028 bce) served as the sole mediators between the deity t"ien and the inhabitants of the realm. The zhou dynasty (1027-1028 bce) introduced the concept of the mandate of. Heaven, that is, that royal power in china was transferable under the appropriate religious circumstances.
