EAS103H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Zuo Zhuan, Filial Piety, Sima Qian
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Pre-modern east asia chapter 2: philosophers and warring states. 770 b. c. e zhou court transferred to luoyang and fiefs function more as independent states linked in a multi-state system. Conflict and warfare took course leading to only seven important states by third century b. c. e. A greater emphasis on the shi( ) which advised the rulers and allowed an intellectual movement with the ideas of confucianism( ), taoism( ) and legalist tradition( ) Eastern zhou dynasty is separated into two periods. Western zhou dynasty was not as extensively documented as eastern for their advances in political narrative. Most important chronicle() is the zuo zhuan( ) from 722 to 463 b. c. e. Zhou kings had no military enforcement and were sometimes attacked by vassals. Many wars had dealt with succession since rulers would typically have many concubines and the sons were usually chosen by the ruler out of preferential favour.
