HIST 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Filial Piety, Taoism, Junzi
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Monsoons cut off by tibetan plateau; arid; varied rainfall. Dry farming (wheat, millet, soybean, sorghum, corn, etc. Monsoons not cut off by tibetan plateau; regular, heavy rainfall. Some famous examples of early agriculture (c. 5000 bce) of. China include: banpo (yangshao culture) (north china): millet, soybean; pig, chicken, hemudu (south china): rice; water buffalo. The achievement of yu the great (flood control). To control water, yu needed to mobilize large number of population, something done by state power. After the death of yu, yu"s son became his successor, thereby began the practice of hereditary succession and created the first dynasty--the xia dynasty. Oracle bones: animal bones and tortoise shells; for divination. Writings on the oracle bones are the earliest extant writings in east. Heaven made moral judgment about human affairs. The zhou kings based the legitimacy of their rule on the mandate of. The idea of the mandate of heaven.
